Panelists included, from left, Joan Fitzgerald, Lou Leonard, Janelle Knox-Hayes, Julie Silva, and Christian Binz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nA greener future is possible if we know where to look and learn, panel says<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
We may think we face a bleak future under climate change, but there is still time to take effective action if we reconsider our economic and social approaches and develop alternative solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was the message from a panel of scholars in the presentation \u201cToward More Sustainable Futures and Economic Geographies\u201d held in early June at the 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography at Clark<\/a>. The conference, hosted for the first time in the United States, featured a series of roundtables over several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moderated by James T. Murphy<\/a>, professor and director of Clark\u2019s Graduate School of Geography, the sustainability roundtable brought together Joan Fitzgerald, professor of urban and public policy of Northeastern University; Lou Leonard<\/a>, Clark\u2019s inaugural D.J.A. Spencer Dean of the School of Climate, Environment, and Society; Janelle Knox-Hayes, Lister Brothers Professor of Economic Geography and Planning at MIT; Julie Silva, professor of geography at University of Buffalo; and Christian Binz, a group leader in the cluster of sustainable transitions and business innovations at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Marshall Plan for green investments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Fitzgerald spelled out the challenges of finding local solutions to climate issue. She described an example from her book, \u201cEmerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development.\u201d Solar panels grew out of research at the University of Toledo in Ohio, a natural extension of the city\u2019s auto glass industry. First Solar opened the United States\u2019 first and largest solar manufacturing plant in the area in 1999, \u201cand it was a great success story,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But within a decade, First Solar moved its plants to Indonesia, and then to Germany. Now, \u201cChina has pretty much taken over the whole solar industry,\u201d according to Fitzgerald, with 72 percent of solar panels produced there \u2014 or 95 percent, if you include electronic components necessary to make them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u200aYou see the problem here with the local strategies for economic development; what goes on in the world economy and how quickly one area\u2019s competitive advantage can be completely obliterated,\u201d she said. \u201cYet, \u200aI’m still an optimist about making those connections between economic development and climate action.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu proposed a Green New Deal plan focused on the creation of green jobs. Fitzgerald led a panel to analyze the type of jobs, skills, and education needed to achieve Wu\u2019s plan. But the solution does not lie entirely in green jobs, according to Fitzgerald. \u201cIt’s hard to categorize a job as green,\u201d she said. Instead, the solutions lie in \u201cinvestment in green technologies, investment in climate action in general.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Damon Silvers, director of policy and special counsel for the AFL-CIO and a visiting professor of practice at University College London, \u201cat its most conservative, the gap between global decarbonization investment levels needed to meet the Paris (Climate Agreement) targets and the actual global decarbonization level is about $6.5 trillion annually,\u201d Fitzgerald noted. \u201cSo we\u2019ve really got to step up investment dramatically \u2026 something on the order of the Marshall Plan or the New Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Focusing on local communities to achieve global solutions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Leonard described how the past century, which saw global reorganization after World War II, became \u201cthe first period in human history where we\u2019ve truly begun to act globally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result, he said, \u201cwe naturally began to engage in ecological problems with a planetary systems view and approach. We developed global agreements with global goals\u201d and \u201cthen built a set of expectations for countries that they would develop national targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although many of the efforts have been successful, this global approach has also been limiting, according to Leonard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He suggested that scholars need to \u201cauthentically co-create learning and strategies\u201d focused on local communities, \u201cconnecting more of the work that has been going on at the community level\u201d to solving global problems. \u201cI think this is a scale that where we can relate better to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Integrating Indigenous knowledge: \u2018Think about the things that we would learn\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Knox-Hayes urged economic geographers to adopt an \u201cevaluational, practice-based model for integrating Indigenous knowledge, leadership, and pedagogy,\u201d an approach she uses in her scholarship and leadership of MIT\u2019s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. \u201cIt’s not just a justice model, it’s also incredibly innovative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She took the audience through a primer on Aristotle\u2019s Nicomachean Ethics<\/em> and Politics, <\/em>foundational works \u201claying out the conditions under which social systems and economic systems can thrive.\u201d The philosopher spelled out an \u201cordered system that begins to establish the foundations of the nation state that acts through reason and flourishes in the pursuit of individual reason. And in that idea, knowledge itself is structured into a hierarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This hierarchy of social order exists today in families, communities, and nations, and has been \u201cfundamental in colonialism,\u201d which has assimilated and often sought to erase Indigenous languages, knowledge, and practices, according to Knox-Hayes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that Western knowledge system is \u201cincredibly threatened and insecure,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re not realizing the dangers. It\u2019s basically like having one monocrop. We have one way of creating knowledge and we hide and erase everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Knox-Hayes urged her peers to \u201cthink about what we could accomplish if instead of trying to erase \u2026 we brought all of these different knowledge systems into dialogue,\u201d on \u201can international scale. I think about the things that we would learn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Learning from Mozambique: mineral extraction and migration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Silva described her work in local communities in Mozambique, where sea-level rise threatens a coastline that is twice the length of California\u2019s. In the south, the country has experienced drought and cyclones; in the \u201cforgotten north, considered the breadbasket,\u201d natural gas production and terrorist activity abound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat’s happening there merits more attention than it gets,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s an interesting irony to the fact that critical minerals are supposed to help us with the energy transition,\u201d but mineral extraction is leading to degradation and inequalities in such environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States and other richer countries are increasingly banning migration from countries that face instability, in part due to climate change. People in Mozambique and other parts of Africa are leaving rural areas that lack economic opportunities for urban areas. But \u201cthe next step, if you think about migration in stages, it will start to become more international, and there are a lot of forces pushing against that, but I don\u2019t think they will be successful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She sees \u201cpathways forward,\u201d ranging from green financial investments to case studies of \u201ccommunity-led sustainability initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018We really stand at a historic inflection point\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Binz remains optimistic about the world\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe really stand at a historic inflection point. It\u2019s our generations that are tasked with creating the economic institutions of more sustainable civilization,\u201d he said. \u201cI always tell my students it’s a real privilege to live in this time of human history because we will be in the history books for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the past decade, he points out, there have been \u201chopeful developments,\u201d with extreme poverty declining to 8 percent of the world\u2019s population and greenhouse gas emissions \u201calmost peaking globally\u201d and soon declining. Meanwhile, low- and middle-income countries are leading efforts toward greener development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that humanity can actually argue that we have the tools in our hands to create this huge, more sustainable civilization,\u201d Binz said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like 20 years ago, where we asked the question, \u2018Could we somehow create this?\u2019 We have so many powerful tools in our hands now to do it if we make the right decisions moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, he also outlined three challenges in creating a more sustainable future, including limited economic growth and declining populations; unharnessed technologies that will eliminate good jobs; and the new \u201cmultipolar world order,\u201d where \u201cthere will be at least three political blocks that will fight for dominance \u2014 the U.S. and its allies, China and its allies, and then maybe Europe and its allies, and maybe even more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overcoming these challenges will take more than increased technological capabilities, products, and services, according to Binz. It will take \u201ca mix of technical, institutional, and social innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That means we need to adapt conceptually, he said, moving \u201cfrom economic material prosperity as the end goal to inclusive human wellbeing as the end goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With their \u201cglobal, multiscale outlook,\u201d Binz concluded, economic geographers are \u201cperfectly positioned\u201d to \u201cthink about how the global economy could be reorganized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summing up the panel session, Leonard urged participants to work together to forge a more sustainable future. \u201cWe are the ones who have to do this,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to think of new ways of connecting knowledge and connecting local-scale work into something that allows us to have an impact more quickly, instead of just relying on our isolated work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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