[WSMDiscuss] [ICCA Consortium FORUM] Can Corona Save the World?

[Ariel Salleh]

Titles and phrases carrying a touch of irony do not readily travel well across cultures.




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On 31 Mar 2020, at 6:36 PM, Ashish Kothari <ashishkothari at riseup.net> wrote:

Hi Faizi, thanks for your comment. We did consider this, but our feeling was that there is no either/or ... even as the world focuses and must focus on the immediate humanitarian crisis (which is how we start the article ... and see also my piece of today, sent separately), there is no reason to not also talk about steps and directions that we need to take to deal with the underlying malaise, whenever this is possible. If, when you say "I stand in solidarity with the ...", the assumption is that the 5 of us as authors of this piece don't, then that is an invalid assumption. Each of us doing what we can to help with the relief, rescue, and rehabilitation work ... while also making our voice heard when the state acts callously in the name of emergency measures (as in India). this is also the spirit in whcih the Vikalp Sangam core group statement was issued in India, endorsed by nearly 60 organisations/networks (sent out on these lists on 28th March). 
Several people have written in that they appreciate such an approach that , while not ignoring the immediate crisis and measures, also brings out what needs to be done in the long-term. 
the original title of this piece was 'Is Corona going to save the world? No, but we can' ... perhaps the same sense you are trying to convey below. As for capitalism and industrial civilisation dying in 70 years, I'm afraid we are not so precisely prescient as you seem to be ... but we do think that we should do all we can to hasten this demise, while reducing the pains associated, rather than only wait for the climate crisis to do it ... and while this happens, also talk about, promote, and/or practice whatever alternatives to it that we can. 
I am copying in the other authors in case anyone wants to add anything. 
ashish 

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On 30/03/20 2:59 pm, Faizi S via WSM-Discuss wrote:
> Isnt it indiscretion to rush to write an article with such a title just as the pandemic is exploding and ppl r dropping dead due to the virus and the poor dying in india due to govt apathy. i wonder if one cannot have waited a while to see the further course of the trajectory. it is perhaps for no reason that envtl people are despised by many.
> 
>   i stand in solidarity with the people infected, the medical community thats valiantly fighting the scourge, and govts that are standing by the citizens.
>  
> btw, corona is not going to save the world or the planet. humanity shall overcome this as well as it has overcome epidemics in the past. however, capitalism and the industrial civilisation will be over in another 70 yrs, not due to any epidemic but due to a combination of causes led by global warming.
> faizi
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:05 PM Ashish Kothari <ashishkothari at riseup.net> wrote:
> A take by 5 of us (editors of Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary) 
> on COVID-19 and hte opportunity it gives us.
> 
> English: 
> https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/can-coronavirus-save-planet/
> 
> Portuguese: 
> https://editoraelefante.com.br/podera-o-coronavirus-salvar-o-planeta/
> 
> Reprinted:
> 
> 
> https://theecologist.org/2020/mar/27/coronavirus-and-crisis-anthropocene
> 
> Ashish
> 
> -- 
> LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org)
> and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org
> 
> Ashish Kothari
> Kalpavriksh
> Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa
> 908 Deccan Gymkhana
> Pune 411004, India
> Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450
> http://kalpavriksh.org
> www.vikalpsangam.org
> www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org
> www.iccaconsortium.org
> www.acknowlej.org
> http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/
> Twitter: @chikikothari
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