Since the 2008 financial crisis, political leftists in the United States and the United Kingdom have been advocating the Green New Deal (GNDs) as a transitional socio-economic response to the climate crisis.
So far, all GNDs—both domestic and international—are aimed at eliminating the profit-oriented fossil fuel economy and making a fair transition to a “green economy” that promotes social, gender, and economic justice.
This Series of articles Published in collaboration with Dalia Gebrial and Harpreet Kaur Paul and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in London.It first appeared in a Global Green New Deal Outlook.
The feasibility of the Green New Deal depends on whether it reflects the scale of the challenges facing the global South due to the exploitation and development of natural resources, energy and cheap labor in the developed North.
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The liberalization of empire trade has put worrying debts on the global South. Structural adjustment policies have exacerbated high interest rates, preventing southern states from investing in public infrastructure, building environmental resilience, and responding to health crises such as Covid-19—not to mention funding GND.
Womxn in the global south bears the brunt of the insecurity and work that these policies bring.
Trade rules stipulating the privatization of basic services such as health care, sanitation, water, and education have placed a disproportionate burden on women. They are responsible for collecting water and fuel, cleaning, preparing food, and taking care of children, the elderly, and the sick. work.
More than 75% of unpaid nursing work in the world is undertaken by poor women and girls, who can spend up to 14 hours a day in nursing work in rural areas. Calculated by the minimum wage, their contribution to the global economy is US$10.8 trillion-more than three times the value of the global technology industry.
In developing countries, 90% of women work in the informal sector, and their unpaid domestic work subsidizes the capitalist economy. In other words, by eliminating the basic labor and human rights of women and girls around the world, we can accumulate wealth for the rich.
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Neoliberalism requires gender division of labor, placing the burden of instability on women. At the same time, these same women face intolerable pollution, displacement and deprivation in the name of profit and economic growth.
Although the womxn in the global south contributed the least to the climate crisis, the first to bear the brunt were unpredictable seasonal patterns that damaged their crops and water sources, damaged health, weakened food sovereignty, exacerbated poverty, and exposed them to Violence and conflict put womxn into trouble in the cycle of intergenerational inequality and discrimination.
