[energiadecreixent] PROPOSTES AIGUA I ENERGIA acampada bcn

[Pere Ariza]

Bones a totes,
Per aquelles contradiccions de la vida, tinc torn a la cooperativa de 19 a
21h presencial i obligatori i no podré assistir a un esdeveniment important:
La plenària de continguts a les 19h davant del monument de Francesc Macià.
Fins dilluns, anàvem només tres, la Lydia, l'Elena i jo a la plenària a
informar del que estava treballant el grup de mediambient i a intentar
integrar-se i reflexionar amb la resta de continguts.
Seria bo, que algú de la comissió de Medi Ambient, anés a enterar-se del que
passa. Per altra banda, molt bé François,em sembla magnífic proposar aquests
punts de la conferència!
Ens veiem a l'assamblea del vespre a la que arribaré el més aviat possible,
;)
Una abraçada,
Pere


2011/5/24 Francois Schneider <Francois a degrowth.net>

> Hola Pere,
> Hola Tothom
>
> nos parecen fantasticos tus ideias, mui bien formulados
>
> Pensabamos que las ideas y resultados de la degrowth conferencia en
> barcelona 2010 podria ser muy interesante como inspiracion para el desaroyo
> de las propuestas. Lo mas importante con estas ideas es que son un resultado
> de un proceso democratico de mas que 300 personas.
>
> Los hemos puesto en forma de "bullet points". Seria genial i importante si
> alguin los podria traducir en castellano o catalan por si los quieremos
> utilizar en el proceso de construir propuestas.
>
> Francois i Filka
>
> Quien no puede ayudar con la traduccion?
>
> “Degrowth Bullet points” from the Barcelona conference
> see also the declaration of the Barcelona conference
> http://www.degrowth.org/Barcelona-2010-Declaration.119.0.html
> and the declaration of the Paris degrowth conference
>
> http://events.it-sudparis.eu/degrowthconference/Declaration%20on%20Degrowth%20FR.pdf
>
>
> General
> Degrowth of the size of the technological and economic system as well as
> economical, political, social and cultural structural changes are urgently
> needed.
> We stressed the importance of:
> - long-term vision (a one that fits within the ecological limits),
> - the diversity of human capabilities to realize their various potentials,
> - the escape from the homo economicus mental box,
> - identifying the fundamental human needs, and realizing the diversity of
> the strategies to satisfy them (taking into account that some of these can
> be illusory),
> - increase the visibility of positive examples and proposals of bottom up
> and alternative life-sustaining models
>
> We need degrowth in the North and truly sustainable and culturally specific
> growth in the South, distributing wealth and compensating for ecological
> debt, acting in the North to reduce degradation in the South
>
> We recognize that poor and other marginalized groups in the Global North
> are part of the Global South.
>
> DEMOCRACY
>
> Politics is for all, and thus is to be de-commercialized and de-commodified
> Ideas and practices of direct and participatory democracy can be applied to
> different scales and social and economic activities
>
> Improving the conditions for deep democracy would involve:
> - Interdisciplinary research (This is a diversity strategy implying that
> the movement and change from our current situation and position at local and
> global level should not be only one, and would be based on understanding
> different cultures and political history contexts and local successful
> niches of sustainability.)
> - Democratic experimentation now by participation in politics and
> decision-making in existing networks, and institutions (This is the loyalty
> strategy implying a change within the current political system)
> - Creating new experimental spaces, i.e. communities experimenting with
> degrowth at a local scale, to investigate in practice how best to satisfy
> basic needs, creating holistic spaces of education and developing social
> economy. (This is the exit strategy implying leaving the system and building
> alternatives. Establish autonomous communities and connect them. Promote
> this way of living and intervene in the system.
> - Public pressure (This is the voice strategy implying particular political
> movement and activist engagement.) Link environmental movements with social
> movements and focus on underlying root causes to form alliances.)
>
>
> Open questions
> What kind of incentives can motivate people to participate in political
> activity and decision-making?
> How can we ensure that participative decision-making arrangements are
> possible?
> What international diplomacy for North/South convergence?
> Is the assimilation within the political party system too early and against
> the ideas of degrowth?
>
> EDUCATION
>
> Education for all social actors, based on living in harmony with the social
> and natural environment
> Educational techniques based on self-determination and interacting with,
> influencing and appreciating the world and opposition to hegemonic status
> quo is proposed. The methods of evaluation and standard setting need to be
> re-examined, and inter-generational knowledge sharing and informal education
> promoted.
> Creativity and diversity need to be promoted through different pedagogies.
> Cooperation has to be promoted early on in the educational process and the
> community has to be involved in the formation of educational curricula.
>
> Open questions
> What type of ethics in education? How do we transform the present
> educational system?
>
> SOCIAL ECONOMY
>
> Enterprises
>
> Production units/Companies size is limited for maintaining the rationality
> of satisfaction of local needs
> Profit dividends and profits of distant shareholders that do not take part
> in the activity are abolished
> At the level of social and economic enterprises decisions are taken by the
> people working in them, rather than investors
>
>
> Social Security
> A ceiling on the level of income (implying a 100% tax above certain level
> of income), as well a basic income are introduced
> A maximum ratio, between the minimum level of income and the income
> ceiling, within both society and companies, is proposed
> A progressive tax on income, property or natural resource use is proposed
> to finance basic income. Basic income can in provided in the form of local
> currency, and specific products and services like housing or health. There
> is a need to develop risk sharing systems for saving and financing for the
> transition. Pensions can be financed by green taxes.
>
> Open questions
> What would these proposals imply for each sector/type of production?
> What shall we do with sectors which need to be challenged, such as chemical
> production, weapon production, etc?
> Research on world basic income is needed as a viable alternative to
> development aid and social science research on basic income and its
> experience is proposed
>
>
> Trade degrowth
> Limiting trading distances and the volume of trade as well as the
> relocalization of economies are components of degrowth. We need to move away
> from “free trade” and away from growth in trade (of  raw materials and
> finished goods. Waste should not be traded.
> Ecological and social impacts of trade have to be measured with biophysical
> and social indicators, and integrated in trade policies and agreements.
> Food issues should be given a priority to improve food security by working
> towards food sovereignty and productive autonomy.
> Foreign debt cancellations for impoverished countries.
>
> Money and currencies / Financial institutions
> Limit interest rates and money creation (by abolishing money creation by
> private banks and introducing 100% bank solvency, implying the disappearance
> of financial markets, and questioning global currencies)
> Transition towards local currencies for trade degrowth is needed
> Currencies and lending/borrowing should be physically-backed
> Cooperative banks managed by communities/municipalities, cooperative banks'
> environmental and social standards are set and regulated by the community
> leading to a social economy
>
>
> Property rights
> Some limits to private property are needed (including natural resources and
> societal goods). This implies democratic management of natural resources and
> further discussion on the options and alternatives to private property and
> its regulation.
> As it is the case for materials, some limit to the consumption of space per
> person is needed
> What remains in context of private property should be
> researched/democratically defined.
> Design jurisdictions according to each global common and recognize communal
> property rights under national law limiting overuse and unfair ownership of
> natural resources.
> Share our knowledge in copyleft degrowth journal/platforms
>
> Sharing
> We need more sharing of goods and infrastructure so that the aggregate
> amount of goods and resources used decreases.
> General instruments to stimulate the reduction of goods under-utilization
> are needed. This might include acknowledging squatter’s rights.
> Strong positive demonstrations of sharing need to be put forwards.
> Reform laws which prohibit sharing (such as copyright)
>
> Work-sharing
> Limits to paid working hours are needed, and their concrete level have to
> be researched and established in a democratic debate.
> A progressive income tax is needed to reduce inequality as well income
> ceiling.
> Incentives are needed to encourage companies to enable work sharing and
> part-time work (including provision of accessible childcare).
> Unpaid work needs to be shared too.
> Research is needed to define work and its aim in a degrowth society, as
> well as the contribution of unpaid, household/community work to current
> economy.
>
> Degrowth of infrastructures
> Some infrastructure projects (nuclear-based production, incinerators,
> high-speed trains and large scale dams) should be abandoned, while others
> (highways, ammonia-based production and airports) should be drastically
> limited.
> Reduce and eliminate production infrastructure of toxic chemicals. Reduce
> the transport infra-structure and make it more collective.
> Companies that build or use infrastructure which are currently indebted,
> such as building and transportation companies, should be closed with state
> support and support for their workers should be provided.
> Support social campaigns that change the imaginary of people regarding the
> need to travel, long distance travel, the levels of consumption and
> production and the dependence on infrastructure.
> Support communities that fight against large infrastructure projects.
> Cities should be reshaped and reformed on the basis of smaller distances
> and size, including a reduction in urban sprawl.
> Car-based infrastructure should be converted to walking, cycling and open
> common spaces.
> Urban life is to be relocalized keeping or developing its
> multifunctionality and its public spaces.
> Proximity relationships are fostered through urban redesign-re-organization
> and the use of environmentally friendly regional materials and bio-climatic
> design.
> Make eco-cities for all, rather than for a gentrified minority. Build local
> social and ecological resilience in cities, use zoning to bring back nature
> in the city and keep neighbourhoods compact.
> Degrowth challenges centralized decisions for mono-functional use and the
> involvement of urban dwellers in transforming the social, political and
> economic relations in urban spaces. Ecological degrowth neighbourhood plans
> (including which areas to remove, to recycle, preserve, etc) need to be
> decided and implemented through collective decision-making.
>
> Degrowth of advertising
> Advertising from public spaces should be limited and all ads that affect
> children/vulnerable people, health, involve CO2-intensive sectors, or have
> sexist messages, should be regulated. For the purpose bans, regulation and
> taxation of advertisement should be introduced.
> Bottom-up measures that change people’s perception of advertising to
> recognize its manipulative nature are needed.
> Community and individual involvement, including direct action, are needed
> in order to expose the ubiquity of advertising and the exploitation of
> values associated with it. Attention should be paid to the compliance with
> the existing and adopting new regulation on advertising. The financial
> sustainability of free media needs to be ensured.
>
> Agro-ecology, food sovereignty and degrowth
> The productivist model must be phased-out and policies that finance
> industrial agriculture projects must stop (including industrial fertilizers
> and chemicals).
> There is an urgent need to move towards a more agro-ecological integrated
> agricultural system of food production by:
> - providing financial support for agroecological alternatives
> - using seasonal, ecological and local food
> - less livestock production
> - having food sovereignty as a principle
> - limiting deforestation and promoting re-ruralisation
> - reconnecting rural and urban spheres
> - encouraging citizen initiatives supporting both urban and rural localised
> farming by diverse alliances with social movements, farmers, consumers, and
> public institutions as education, health sector, etc.
>
> Open questions
> Which other production sectors need to be explored in relation to degrowth
> What about a World Relocalisation Organisation to replace the WTO?
> What about reducing all types of infrastructure for international trade,
> including money?
> How do we reduce inequality in international power relations?
>
> Technology
> A selective moratorium on technologies is proposed, based on their
> potential risks, benefits and impacts. We need at least some limits to
> market and profit-driven technology and innovation (e.g. internet,
> antibiotics, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, space travel). Taking into
> account the values of all stakeholders the criteria for identifying the
> limits would be based on:
> - the degree of locality concerning resources, innovation and decision
> making
> - the scale in use of the technology and its the supporting infrastructure.
> - the required inputs and outputs of the technology (environmental,
> monetary, energetic, etc).
>
> The results should be disseminated for independent and wide review while
> promoting people engagement to ratify or abrogate moratoriums. We need local
> and small scale alternatives with low start up capital and and barriers to
> entry (e.g. permaculture, agroecology and various social technologies).
>
> NATURAL RESOURCES
>
> The exploitation of natural resource is to be limited.
> Reduce the global throughput of energy and materials adjusting it to the
> carrying capacity of the biosphere.
> Put a limit to human appropriation of net primary production
>
> Mining
> Public subsidies for extractive industries should be abandoned and the
> social and environmental cost associated with them paid by companies,
> A global moratorium on resource extraction in areas of high biodiversity
> and ethnographic value should be established,
> Local communities should participate in decision-making on mining projects.
>
> Waste
> Waste should be limited and production, treatment and final disposal of
> waste should close material cycles and be as local as possible. In these
> lines, the working group suggested:
> legal instruments (such as taxation),
> integrating proximity principles in waste regulation,
> encouraging reuse through product-service design, cooperative sharing,
> community-based approaches, deposit and refund systems and facilitation of
> sharing of good practices.
>
> Water
> Abandon new irrigation plans, large-scale water transfer and supply
> infrastructure.
> Public ownership and management of superficial, ground and desalted water
> at municipal level, without considering it a commodity.
> Domestic tariff systems with free access until a basic threshold and a
> quota up to a ceiling in physical blocks terms per day per person, as well
> as heavy industrial tariff to physical parameters and thresholds.
> The Virtual water content (full life cycle) should be available to reduce
> the hidden consumption of water
>
> Energy
> Total energy consumption and production should reduce while switching to
> locally produced renewable energy.
> Some energy production has to degrow dramatically (fossil fuels), while
> others – disappear (nuclear).
> Foster policies, incorporating a multi-criteria evaluation to have an
> energy system with the highest EROI and the lowest environmental impact and
> material throughput with least transport distance
> The decision making process of planning for future policies should be done
> in a democratic and decentralized manner ensuring fair access to fossil fuel
> as their scarcity increases.
>
> Open questions
> How could we enforce a national cap on fossil fuels and other non-renewable
> resources while maintaining fair access, and a possible fund for financial
> compensation for non-extraction?
> How should decisions on the extraction of natural resources be globally
> discussed?  We support the Yasuni initiative, what about quotas, material
> certificates, carbon taxes etc.?
> How can the North repay its ecological debt by returning the commons,
> robbed from the South?
> How do deal with renewable resources?
>
> DEMOGRAPHY
>
> The degrowth movement advocates full reproductive rights taking into
> account environmental and social consequences for our own and other species.
> It welcomes the conscious procreation, co-responsibility of the partners in
> child rearing.
> Government coercion is opposed as well as incentives to increase the
> birthrate as seen in some countries.
> The declining rate of population growth and peak population are welcomed.
> Migration is not caused by overpopulation but primarily because of the
> extreme inequalities in the world. The degrowth movement supports the right
> to migrate and opposes the “lifeboat” ethics. Simultaneously, degrowth
> movement supports the shift to greater local resilience to reduce the need
> to migrate
>
> RESEARCH
>
> Research is needed on the drivers of innovation, or on whether socially and
> environmentally beneficial technologies can be developed and spread in a
> non-profit seeking context and way.
> At what level do we want to exploit resources (both directly and
> indirectly), and how fast do we want to reduce their exploitation in the
> North as opposed to the South.
> Development categories (North, south, poor rich 1-2-3-4 world, national
> state, developed underdeveloped, post- anti- high income, low income central
> marginal eco abuse, green economy) need to be redefined. Find the right
> lenses to identify who is affecting and who is affected.
> Identify interventions/shocks/group struggles that cause shifts
> Explore case studies of non-growing economies
> Research on degrowth indicators is needed, aiming at reducing resource use,
> waste and emissions and keeping them within the ecological limits, while
> maintaining and enhancing quality of life.
>
> What is to be measured?
> environmental as well as social indicators (economic ones being part of the
> latter)
> qualitative and quantitative aspects
> objective and subjective indicators
>
> What is to be considered:
> bottom-up and deliberative approach.
> indicators for communication and analysis
> consumption and production aspects
> use of available (Sustainable Development) indicators where appropriate
> do not remain within the paradigm of what is being measured already but
> rather consider what should be measured
>
> Macro models for degrowth can be informative. They should include and
> consider:
> labour income and employment benefits of work-time reduction, unpaid work
> (paying attention to a changing definition of work),
> resource constraints, considering strong sustainability,
> degrowth scenarios of the financial system and interest rates,
> the possible increase in marginal utility of people from redistribution of
> income and reduction of working time and inequalities,
> welfare state and social services,
> the stability of the system during contraction and modeling macro-micro
> relationships,
> a diversity of models: regional, local, national.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hemos On Tue, 24 May 2011 11:47:18 +0200
> Pere Ariza <pereariza a gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Buenas gent,
> > Yo hoy no voy a poder asistir a la reunión.
> > Simplemente os invito a hacer propuestas sobre agua y energía.
> > Yo suelto cinco, cuatro sobre energía y uno sobre agua. Las que se me
> > ocurren antes de contribuir al mundo también con mi trabajo, jejeje ;)
> >
> > ENERGÍA
> >
> > 1) Reducción drástica del consumo de energía a través de una reconversión
> y
> > replanteamiento de la organización del tiempo de trabajo y de la
> > planificación del territorio.
> > Reordenación del modelo de ciudad basándose en un mosaico de ciudades y
> > pueblos compactos rodeados de cinturones agro-forestales conectados por
> > transporte público en la medida de lo posible, tren de cercanías.
> Reducción
> > de la jornada laboral, y generación de empleo en sectores excesivamente
> > automatizados que sustituyen la energía endosomática por la exosomática.
> >
> > 2) Reformulación del modelo energético con el objetivo de reducir
> > drásticamente el consumo de combustibles fósiles. En cuanto a
> electricidad
> > (desgraciadamente sólo una pequeña parte de nuestro consumo energético)
> > propongo: reformulación del mercado eléctrico y de la estructura y
> gestión
> > de la red eléctrica. Dedicar esfuerzos de investigación y desarrollo en
> la
> > generación distribuida en base a micro-redes inteligentes basadas en
> > energías renovables diversificadas, que se integrarían de lo local a lo
> > global. Este modelo, además, garantizaría la toma de decisiones
> democráticas
> > y el control social de la energía. También promovería la
> descentralización y
> > la desconcentración del poder de gestión de la generación de la energía.
> >
> > 3) Cierre de las centrales nucleares. Calendario de cierre y medidas
> claras
> > y transparentes de cómo se van a gestionar los residuos. Primar no sólo
> la
> > eficiencia en la gestión sino también la justicia ambiental. Almacenar
> > temporalmente los residuos en las centrales nucleares, en ATIs (Almacén
> > Temporal Individualizado) hasta no tener un almacenamiento geológico
> > profundo diseñado. No construir un ATC, para luego hacer otro almacén
> > geológico profundo. Ello sólo persigue la perpetuación de un lobby y
> crear
> > las condiciones para aumentar la vida de las centrales nucleares como ya
> se
> > hizo poco antes de Fukushima en el caso español.
> >
> > 4) Declarar los servicios energéticos y el acceso a la energía como un
> bien
> > común que debe ser gestionado democráticamente y con transparencia.
> >
> > AGUA
> >
> > 1) Declarar el agua como un bien común que debe ser gestionado
> > democráticamente y con transparencia. No a la mercantilización y
> > privatización del agua.
> > Garantizar el derecho universal al agua y establecer limitaciones a la
> > explotación del agua priorizando los usos des de las necesidades
> > fundamentales (de la naturaleza y de las personas) hasta el uso para el
> > mercado.
> >
> > Si he dicho alguna estupidez será magnífico aprender de esta comunidad
> > diversa y entrañable,
> >
> > Salud y alegría,
> > Pere
> >
> >
> > El 23 de maig de 2011 22:45, Iago Otero Armengol <Iago.Otero a uab.cat> ha
> > escrit:
> >
> > > Estic d'acord amb en Jaume, a mi sí que em preocupa, i també la
> diversitat
> > > cultural. De fet van unides.
> > >
> > > A Terrassa avui s'ha reunit el grup de treball en medi ambient, he
> llegit
> > > els punts que es van acordar a Barcelona. S'ha debatut força. Demà
> > > continuarem a dos quarts de nou. Hi ha assemblees informatives cada
> dia, i
> > > els divendres i diumenges assemblees per prendre decisions.
> > >
> > > Dimecres seré a Bcn, estaria bé que ens trobéssim per intercanviar
> > > informació i impressions (avui he trucat a algú de vosaltres per
> parlar-ne,
> > > Fede i Pere).
> > >
> > > També estaria bé que algú del grup/comunitat de decreixement vingués a
> > > Terrassa per parlar de temes concrets en el grup de medi ambient
> (població i
> > > recursos, energia, etc.). François / Filka...? Ja ho concretarem.
> > >
> > > Salut,
> > >
> > > iago
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "En la plenitud de este acto de amar, en su existenciación,
> > en su praxis, se constituye la solidaridad verdadera."
> >
> > Paulo Freire
> >
> > Pere Ariza-Montobbio
> > Telèfons personals:
> > 931825776; 650327145
> > Telèfon oficina:
> > Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals
> > ICTA-UAB 93 586 81 02 //93 581 29 74.
> > pere.ariza a uab.cat
>
>
>


-- 
"En la plenitud de este acto de amar, en su existenciación,
en su praxis, se constituye la solidaridad verdadera."

Paulo Freire

Pere Ariza-Montobbio
Telèfons personals:
931825776; 650327145
Telèfon oficina:
Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals
ICTA-UAB 93 586 81 02 //93 581 29 74.
pere.ariza a uab.cat
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