April 11 – 1:30pm
DATE CHANGE FOR EASTER — Second Sunday rather than first Sunday.lolly tindol, Coordinator
Book this session is a return to “Pluriverse Part 2”, edited by Kashish Kothari and others. Pluriverse contains over 100 essays on alternatives to currently dominant processes of development.
We covered the first part of this book in February, but the wealth of information is too much for one session. We’ll cover final sections of the book on April 11.
“Pluriverse challenges the belief held by many in the West that all the nations of the world can benefit by “catching up” to the Western way of life through “development.” Though once upon a time the industrialized West seemed to offer promise to the other nations of the world, now the West is unable even to meet the United Nation’s basic Sustainable Development Goals. The book’s five editors, who bring perspectives from several continents, are concerned with going to the roots of the problem of development including capitalism and economic growth, the idea of progress, sexism, the idea that production is always good, and state domination. Although this book focuses on “post-development” it is completely relevant to the climate crisis. After all, development has involved the purposeful spread of a way of life based in high energy use
Meeting Link for April 11 “Pluriverse”
–https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85858699382
Climate Change Forum, virtual
