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Development, inequality & climate change
Professor Colin Butler
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Research and education for rural development and food security to build resilient rural environments: Australian and Indian perspectives
Organised by: Australia India Council, PradanAmbedkar University Delhi, Australian Centre for International Agricultural ResearchCharles Sturt University, University of Western Sydney
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Outline
Paulo Friere: determinants of development
Inequality
Climate change as a case study of global inequality
What we might do
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The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
ideasnutritioneducationcommunity
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.. Rajesh Boudh, who converted .. to Buddhism 16 years ago .. told me, “I no longer think the way that I used to.” .. when I became a Buddhist, I realized that I was human. When I still believed in Hinduism, I didn’t know I was human. I thought I was polluted, untouchable.”
http://phillips.unc.edu/page/patrick-dowd
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Prevalence of stunting in under 5 year olds
Black et al, Lancet 2008
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Inequality and “neoliberalism”
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“Washington Consensus”(neo-liberalism, Reaganomics, Modinomics)
Reduce subsidies
Cut marginal tax rates
Deregulation – reduce protection
Reduced role for the state
http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story094/en/
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“trickle down” does not work
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Share of income received by top 1% (UNCTAD, 2012)
Pearson Commission on ODA
“Health for all by 2000”
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Ascendancy of neoliberalism
Share of income received by top 1% (UNCTAD, 2012)
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Inequality – essential – but thresholds exist
Envy, risk of “blowback” not main problem
-matters even if living standards of poor rise slightly
matters if/when elites lose touch with the poor and rig society so that “public goods” erode
(eg public health, development, climate system, biodiversity, eventually global law and order)
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Some ways the powerful “rig” (shape) the system, harming public goods*
1. Own, control, influence media*2. Excessive influence on policy*3. Ignore big tax evaders4. Encourage social norms blaming poor5. Cut foreign aid *6. Promote loyal academics *7. Ignore, imprison, murder dissidents*
* (not just neoliberalism)
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Global inequality
Inequality, in one boatDanger of sinkingHypocrisy, loss of connection with poor
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Climate change as a case study of global inequality
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard (2013):
quoted as "compelling" one of Mr Lawson's claims .. that unmitigated warming would leave future generations 8.4 times better off, compared with 9.4 times richer in the absence of climate change
In other words – nothing to worry about
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Greenpeace India faces expulsion
.. 30 days to show why it should not be deregistered for "anti-development" activities.
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Damascus, 2014. Line for food aid from UN Relief and Works Agency in a great city - large parts of which have been destroyed by civil war, along with basic food supply infrastructure
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What we can do
1. Data necessary – not sufficient
2. Form coalitions – among colleagues, with other disciplines and with other groups
3. Strive to challenge neoliberalism and magical thinking
4. Keep optimistic but not complacent
