#citable research

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as some of us have been saying for a while

still, it's good to have more evidence

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Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications

Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the g

In 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. The wage value of this labour was equivalent to €16.9 trillion in Northern prices.

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Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of r

The North net-appropriated 12 billion tons of embodied raw materials, 822 million hectares of embodied land, 21 exajoules of embodied energy, and 188 million person-years of embodied labour from the global South in a single year.

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"Ten reasons why carbon markets will not bring about radical emissions reduction"

Carbon markets as failure

Carbon markets as loophole

Carbon markets as unjust development

Carbon markets as fossil fuel subsidy

Carbon markets as regressive

Carbon markets as corruption

Carbon markets as utopian faith in pricing

Carbon markets as scientism

Carbon markets as technocracy

Carbon markets as obstacle

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