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For instance, rather than transfer money to logging operations for incremental replanting programs, why not award credits to forest-dwelling communities that fight successfully to stop logging altogether? Rather than bribe powerful fossil fuel companies to stop flaring natural gas, why not reward indigenous groups that entirely block new resource exploitation activities on their lands? Rather than finance the construction of biopower facilities that deprive villagers of organic materials that are an essential part of centuries-old sustainable farming practices, why not give those villagers carbon credits when they manage to impede the project and hold onto their traditional, low-carbon way of living?
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
Relating stories alone will not legitimize such claims; political communication also requires general normative arguments. Stories often serve as the only means, however, for people in one social segment to gain some understanding of experiences, needs, projects, problems, and pleasures of people in the society differently situated from themselves, to the description of which general normative principles must be applied to do justice.
Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young
The monist/reductionist program always has roughly the same structure: a body of experience or data is dissected into components, some of which are said to have features that disproportionately determine the properties of the whole they together compose. The whole is then analyzed primarily in terms of these favored parts, on the grounds that these parts exist in and of themselves, operate largely according to their own laws, and powerfully influence the whole by processes immune to major alteration by operations of other parts of the whole.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
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