Taking the Pulse of Planning Practice 2013Free Press News Café

April 4, 2013

Bruce DugganDirector

Globalization: Truths & ConsequencesNegotiating the Intersection

Between Personal Praxis and Collective Ethos

Globalization“The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration.”

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Globalization

A Short Survey

1. When considering buying a good or product, what characteristics do you prefer it to have?

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A Short Survey

2. Think of what you’ve consumed in the last 24 hours.

Where do those goods or services fall on these continuums?

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A Short Survey

3. How close are your stated preferences to your actions?

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A Short Survey

3. How close are your stated preferences to your actions?

Was there a difference?

What does that difference reveal about us?

How do you feel about that revelation?

What should we think about that revelation?

alwayslet yourconsciencebe yourguide

So what should we think?

The world trade system is unjust….Economic globalisation leads to structural violence…

World Council of Churches Economic Globalization A Critical View and an Alternative Vision

So what should we think?

These people are trading in human misery….This is the reality of globalization, the true nature of the global market.

Timothy GorringePrincipalities & Powers: A Framework for Thinking about Globalization

So what should we think?

Americans are beyond apologizing for their lifestyle of scorched-earth consumerism….

Harry Flood “Manufacturing Desire,” Adbusters

So what should we think?

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So what should we think?

…‘consumerism’ is a piece of false consciousness, and indeed a tool for our continued and growing enslavement.

Rupert ReadOne World Column

So what should we think?

summarizing these opinions: we are oppressed

• and, simultaneously, we oppress

we are compelled• our desires have been manufactured desires

• we are suffering from false consciousness

I disagree.

Why do I disagree?

1. “false consciousness” is a flawed idea2. globalization is not oppression

benefits outweigh harms

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Why do I disagree?

1. “false consciousness” is a flawed idea2. globalization is not oppression

benefits outweigh harms• correlated with (and perhaps causally related to)

wealth creation poverty reduction health improvements education improvements

objections

> globalization harms the poor1. the poor get poorer

2. sweatshops trap the poor in permanent poverty

3. child labour flourishes

4. globalization exacerbates inequality

> globalization is unsustainable5. won’t we hit a wall?

1. the poor get poorer?

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2. sweatshops trap the poor?

The Economist Jul 29, 2010 “The Next China”

3. child labour flourishes?

International Labor Organization 2010 Report: International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

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4. exacerbates inequality?

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4. exacerbates inequality?

5. we’ll hit a wall?

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...

The Population Bomb, 1968

Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born.

"Eco-Catastrophe!“, 1969

Due to a combination of ignorance, greed, and callousness, a situation has been created that could lead to a billion or more people starving to death.

The End of Affluence, 1974

Paul & Ann Ehrlich

5. we’ll hit a wall?

there is a wall actually, there are at least 4 walls

1. consumption of non-renewable resources

2. pace of consumption of renewable resources

3. pollution

4. inequality

but we can avoid it

5. we’ll hit a wall?

there is a wall actually, there are at least 4 walls

1. consumption of non-renewable resources

2. pace of consumption of renewable resources

3. pollution

4. inequality

but we can avoid them a topic for another time…

So why the mismatch?

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So what should we do?

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from the best sources you can findrigorously

focus on what matters most

Bruce DugganDirector

Globalization: Truths & ConsequencesNegotiating the Intersection

Between Personal Praxis and Collective Ethos

Taking the Pulse of Planning Practice 2013Free Press News Café

April 4, 2013