Eco-Commensalism · 2015. 4. 1. · Eco-Commensalism: Tenets 3. The ability and tendency of humans...
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Eco-Commensalism:Setting the table for what comes after
capitalism
M. Jahi Chappell, Ph.D.Director of Agroecology & Agriculture Policy
Institute for Agriculture and Trade PolicyMinneapolis, MN
Teach-In +50: End the War on the Planet
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Why are we here?
Photo by Alan Glenn
Shadia Fayne Wood/Tar Sands Action
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Mission Accomplished?
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Mission Accomplished?
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Mission Accomplished?
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Matter of Public Will?
• Gilens & Page 2014,
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
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• “The vast majority of our people regard the temporary equilibriums of our society and world as eternally-functional parts…
• …the message of our society is that there is no viable alternative to the present. ”
• Port Huron Statement
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“Worried by his mundane problems which
never get solved, but constrained by the
common belief that politics is an
agonizingly slow accommodation of views,
he quits all pretense of bothering…”
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Two Explanations
1. We are currently in a system that does not reward [punishes] involvement, decreasing trust
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Two Explanations
1. We are currently in a system that does not reward [punishes] involvement, decreasing trust
2. We are currently in a system that discouragesinvolvement and cooperation by, among other things, theorizing against it!
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Economic Man/Homo economicus
• “If one such agent has an unsatiated demand for potato chips, and the cost of one more chip will be to devastate innumerable millions, they simply are not equipped to care.
• And the principle of Pareto optimality shrugs, saying "who are we to judge?””
• Cosma Shalizi, 2010
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It’s just a model… Isn’t it?
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Eco-commensalism/Ecommensalism
• The realization that all of humankind is seated “at the same table”, living in the same “household” as all other organisms on earth
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Commensalism
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Eco- (oikos)
• Ecology –
– Study of “the household
• Economics
– Management of “the household”
(not actual size)
The “Household”
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Eco-Commensalism: Tenets
1. Humans now exist in a complex multi-scale and tele-connected web of social, ecological, economic, and historical relationships and trajectories
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Eco-Commensalism: Tenets
1. Humans now exist in a multi-scale largely non-market web of connections
“Pan Left To Soak Now Predates All Current Roommates”
The Onion, 11/24/12
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Eco-Commensalism: Tenets
2. The complex, many-variable world (e.g. within climate change) requires social arrangements that are dynamic and adaptable
– Need subsidiarity/polycentricity: decisions (and decision-making power!) are placed as locally as possible
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Polycentricity & Climate Change: An “easier” problem?
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Eco-Commensalism: Tenets
3. The ability and tendency of humans to cooperate are idiosyncratic, but pattern-based; they are neither predicted by nor encompassed by prevailing economic theories– A “grammar” of cooperation?
– The importance of meaning and identity:• “Because identity is fundamental to behavior, choice of
identity may be the most important ‘economic decision’” people make (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000)
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Why are we here?
Photo by Alan Glenn
Shadia Fayne Wood/Tar Sands Action
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Eco-Commensalism: Tenets
4. Face-to-face interactions cannot (the evidence thus far indicates…) be replaced
“Much of human knowledge (as Polanyi argues) is practical, and cannot be fully articulated (“tacit”).” (Farrell and Shalizi, 2010)
– BUT:
• “Weak ties” & network connections
• Transitive trust
• Capacity-building through rotation?
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Eco-Commensalism: Tenets
5. Self- (and communal-) efficacy must be fostered
– Neoliberal/capitalist narrative of incompetency and “un-deliberation” must be fought
– New narratives & theories must be supported
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The future of Participatory Democracy(or Eco-commensalism…)
Citizens’ Juries
Participatory Budgeting
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Otro mundo ja chegou…
Another world is already here…