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Issue No. 361 (2024/4)
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COVER:
Troubled waters: How the 'blue economy' may be harming the world's oceans
The
‘blue economy’ myth
We have to stop
thinking the ocean can be run like a business
By Nnimmo Bassey
Covering
over two-thirds of Earth’s surface, the oceans have been viewed as a
source of growth and development. But will the ‘blue economy’ entail
sustainable management of the world’s marine resources, or does it herald
wanton exploitation of the aquatic ecosystem for profit?
Capitalism’s
big blue expansion
By Adam Wolfenden, Maureen Penjueli,
India Logan-Riley and Laisa Nainoka
Under the cover of the blue economy, oceanic resources are being
exploited, geopolitical rivalries played out and climate-harming schemes
hatched.
Global
fisheries are in far worse shape than we thought
By Graham Edgar
New research uncovers the alarming extent of overfishing across
the world today.
Securing
small fishers’ rights
By Shalini Iyengar and Amitrajit
Chakraborty
Recognition of the tenure rights of small-scale fishers is essential
not only for their livelihood security but also for the resilience of
marine fisheries, as shown by the example of the fixed bag-net fishworkers
in India’s West Bengal state.
Blue
bonds: Shifting the responsibility innovatively
By Arınç Onat Kılıç
Touted as an innovative means of funding marine protection efforts,
‘blue bonds’ end up passing the financial burden for conservation to
small island developing states even as private investors reel in the
profits.
Climate
change in the Arctic is a wake-up call for the Global South
By Felipe Arango García
Melting of sea ice in the North Pole region as a result of global
warming threatens adverse consequences much further south.
ECOLOGY
Nothing
can be ‘green’ or ‘eco-friendly’ until the ecological debt is paid
By Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan
What an ecologically scarred world needs is redress for the historical
and ongoing exploitation that is driving environmental collapse, not
supposedly green solutions that only reproduce the same injustices.
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HEALTH
& SAFETY
Drug
resistance is making malaria normal again
By Michael Adekunle Charles
As resistance to existing antimalarial treatments grows, so too
does the threat posed to the African continent by this deadly disease.
ECONOMICS
The
colonial origins of economics
By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven,
Surbhi Kesar and Devika Dutt
The work of this year’s Nobel economics laureates brings the role
of colonialism back to the development discourse, but does so in a
way that actually reinforces Eurocentrism in the discipline.
WORLD
AFFAIRS
The
US’ Cuba policy leaves the island in wreckage
By Ed Augustin
US sanctions against Cuba are a form of economic warfare that
is relentlessly depleting its coffers and harming its people.
HUMAN
RIGHTS
Occupation
and oppression in Palestine
An
emergency international delegation of legal experts, human rights
defenders and legislators was in Palestine for one week in October–November
to look into the worsening conditions in the Occupied Territories.
Their report, reproduced partially below, documents systematic violations
of international law by Israel, ranging from torture within prison
walls to displacement and dispossession in the towns and villages
– all as the carnage in Gaza continues.
WOMEN
The
silent heroes of Kenya’s anti-colonial movement
By Bethany Rebisz
Bethany Rebisz shines a light on the civilian women who, in their
quietly resilient ways, contributed to the Kenyan struggle for independence
in the 1950s.
ACTIONS
& ALTERNATIVES
Freedom
Corner: Inside a Buenos Aires prison cooperative
By Josefina Salomón
In the face of dramatic cuts to public funding, an Argentine prison
cooperative fights to keep supporting free education for the incarcerated.
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World Resurgence Page
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