diff --git a/content/favicon.ico b/content/favicon.ico new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19417f5 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/favicon.ico differ diff --git a/content/infrastructure_megacorridors_recommon-org.md b/content/infrastructure_megacorridors_recommon-org.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd74601 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/infrastructure_megacorridors_recommon-org.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +Title: Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis? +Author: Recommon + +*"Infrastructure mega corridors: a way out (or in) to the crisis?"* + +*Translated from an original blogpost in Italian by Elena Gerebizza and +Filippo Taglieri from Re:Common introducing their new report: ["The +great illusion. Special economic zones and infrastructure +mega-corridors, the way to +go?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814132820/https://www.recommon.org/la-grande-illusione/)* + +In the last few months our lives have changed dramatically. Many of us +lost their jobs while many others continued working under extreme +conditions. Inequality and social injustices have become increasingly +visible features of the economic system and the society in which we +live. + +The pandemic might have impacted everyone's life, but it has not +affected everyone in the same way. Among the sectors that did not +suffer, but rather benefited from the crisis, are online platforms such +as Amazon and the likes. Those sectors have become the vehicles for the +transfer from "real life" to a virtual dimension for our working, +schooling, sporting and socialising. Fortunately, many have been +questioning what the implications of all this would be; including what +might happen to the data generated by our online lives; by whom and how +is this data being treated; and what are the  implications? This is a +debate that we hope will remain open, since it concerns aspects that are +not contingent to the health crisis, but are instead key factors in the +reorganization of "the extractivist society". A society that enables a +few elites to extract more and more material and financial wealth from +the territories and local communities that inhabit them, effectively +expropriating them from the power to decide upon their own lives.  + +While most ongoing conversations center around the health crisis and the +resulting recession, we want to bring attention to the systemic +reorganization that is taking place as we speak. We are talking about a +process that began before the pandemic, a new way of organizing large +infrastructure according to the logics of mega-corridors, to reduce time +and space, with the aim of continuously increasing profits on an +increasing scale in the face of a slowdown in the growth of global +trade. This process, which remains only partly visible, is highly +energy-intensive and rooted in the fossil fuel economy, involving the +construction of new high-speed railways for the transport of goods, port +terminals, data centres and power stations, as well as new logistics +centres covering hundreds of hectares. All this implies a radical and +irreversible transformation of territories for the benefit of large +private capital, where ports and production areas identified as "free +trade", or "Special Economic Zones" (SEZs), all become interconnected.  + +What are the manifestations in Italy and Europe of this global capital +agenda? How will it change the social, economic and productive structure +of our country and the continent? What impact will it have on the +climate and the environment, two central areas where failures and +systemic contradictions are already very visible? The question is partly +rhetorical: it is difficult to imagine a "globalization 2.0" which will +accelerate production, transport and consumption of goods at an +unprecedented speed while at the same time profoundly reduce the +systemic impact on the environment and climate, an impact that goes far +beyond proposed calculations of direct and indirect emissions generated. + +Will the major infrastructure mega-corridors plan be challenged in the +post-pandemic economic crisis or will the current crisis be an excuse to +accelerate it? Will its overall impact be properly assessed? This +remains doubtful since harmful impacts of the global infrastructure +agenda are so far considered as the least of their problems by investors +and policy makers dazzled by forecasts and data about the production, +logistics and global trade that is starting again.  + +How does this infrastructure masterplan meet the needs of the millions +of people who are already paying the highest costs of a profit-driven +model at all costs? How does it meet the needs of communities that will +be removed from their lands to make way for new mega infrastructure? How +will it make our societies more resilient to the great droughts, +typhoons, and increasingly heavy rains? How will it counteract the +increasing cementing of the most densely populated areas and how will it +enable everyone to have a roof over their heads? + +We believe that it is high time to open up to such far-reaching +questions. + +The original article and link to the report can be found +[[here]{.underline}](https://web.archive.org/web/20200814132820/https://www.recommon.org/la-grande-illusione/). diff --git a/content/zabala_warning.md b/content/zabala_warning.md index f83c37e..f0fedd8 100644 --- a/content/zabala_warning.md +++ b/content/zabala_warning.md @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +Title: The Philosophy of Warnings +Author: Santiago Zabala + Santiago Zabala ***The Philosophy of Warnings*** diff --git a/output/archives.html b/output/archives.html index a331173..d53c954 100644 --- a/output/archives.html +++ b/output/archives.html @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ - AMRO_2020_publication - Archives + AMRO 2020 Publication - Archives + - - - + + + @@ -27,16 +28,20 @@ -

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