WE ARE NO DEBTORS! WE ARE CREDITORS OF A HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DEBT!
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Ecological Debt: South Tells North |
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Wednesday, 19 January 2005 |
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DEDICATION |
| This report is dedicated to the memory of Manolo Barreno, coordinator of the Ecuadorian Jubilee Campaign, who died on August 26, 2000. For his tireless efforts towards debt repudiation, and for the Ecuadorian campaign's work on ecological debt, we offer our thanks and gratitude. |
Summary
This Report examines ecological debt primarily from a South - North perspective, drawing from Acción Ecológica's definition of ecological debt as:"the debt accumulated by Northern, industrial countries toward Third World countries on account of resource plundering, environmental damages, and the free occupation of environmental space to deposit wastes, such as greenhouse gases, from the industrial countries.". The report explores the origins of ecological debt and its relationship to financial debt, and presents some estimates of the size of the debt which the North owes the South.
We conclude that those who abuse the biosphere, transgress ecological limits and enforce unsustainable patterns of resource extraction must begin to discharge their ecological debt, first of all, by canceling the financial debt owed by developing countries to Northern creditors.
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Slavery, Pillage and Genocide
This side article explores the connection between redress for the ecological debt and our Southern partners' call for debt cancellation in reparation for the ravages of the colonial period. Demands to cancel monetary debt must be placed in this historical context to ensure that we are sounding the call for justice, not charity. |
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