for - definition - Earth system justice - just ends (targets) - just means (levers)

for - earth system justice - 3 aspects

earth system justice - 3 aspects - interspecies justice - intergenerational justice - intragenerational justice

• for: urban development, inequality, just boundaries, safe and just boundaries, climate justice, urban planetary boundaries, livable cities, earth system boundaries, earth system justice
• title: Urban inequalities in the 21st century economy
• author: Jan niman, Yehua Dennis Wei
• date: Apr 2, 2020
• source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124478/

• for: green city, living city, environmental justice, safe and just transition, safe and just boundaries earth system boundaries, just transition, climate justice, cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries
• title: Environmental justice in a very green city: Spatial inequality in exposure to urban nature, air pollution and heat in Oslo, Norway
• author: Zander S. Venter, Helene Figari, Olve Krange, Vegard Gundersen
• date: Feb. 2023
• source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972207293X#f0005

• for: safe and just boundaries, earth system boundaries, planetary boundaries
• title
  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries

• for: inequality, wealth tax, climate justice, earth system justice
• policy paper
• title
  • Survival of the Richest
• source
  • Oxfam

• date

  • Jan 2023

• Executive Summary

  • Since 2020, the richest 1% have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth
    • nearly twice as much money as the bottom 99% of the world’s population.
  • Billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7bn a day,
    • even as inflation outpaces the wages of at least 1.7 billion workers, more than the population of India.7
  • Food and energy companies more than doubled their profits in 2022,
    • paying out $257bn to wealthy shareholders,
    • while over 800 million people went to bed hungry
  • Only 4 cents in every dollar of tax revenue comes from wealth taxes and
    • half the world’s billionaires live in countries with no inheritance tax on money they give to their children.
  • A tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion a year,
    • enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty, and fund a global plan to end hunger.

• for: safe and just boundaries, earth system justice, planetary boundaries

• Paraphrase
• Earth System Justice that makes up the "Just components of the Earth System Boundaries are characterized by the ‘3 Is of justice’:
  • interspecies justice promotes Earth system stability to prevent the collapse of conditions of life for all species.
  • intergenerational justice (between past and present, and present and future);
  • intragenerational justice (between countries, communities and individuals).
• These principles derive from the seminal work of Weiss on intergenerational and intragenerational equity,
• intergenerational justice can be broken down into:
  • intercommunity, justice,
  • interstate justice,
  • interindividual justice
  • intersectional justice

// ESJ is therefore characterized by INTERbeing

• The = Earth Commission,
• proposes ‘safe and just Earth system boundaries’ (ESBs)
• that go beyond planetary boundaries as
  • they also include a justice perspective
  • suggest transformations to achieve them.

• Safe and just ESBs aim to:

  • stabilize the Earth system,
  • protect species and ecosystems,
  • avoid tipping points,
  • minimize ‘significant harm’ to people while ensuring access to resources for a dignified life and escape from poverty.

• If justice is not considered,

• the biophysical limits may not be adequate

• to protect current generations from significant harm

• Comment

• Similar to aims of doughnut economics

• Earth Commission has develop principles for sharing responsibilities for cities and companies.
• Comment
  • This is implicitly a form of downscaling

• Comment
• "Fortress conservation" is an example of approaching safe boundaries but not considering JUST boundaries.

• The meaning of safe and JUST ESBs
• Safe:
  • stabilize the Earth system,
  • protect species and ecosystems,
  • avoid tipping points
• JUST:
  • minimize ‘significant harm’ to people
  • while ensuring access to resources for a dignified life and escape from poverty.
  • If JUSTice is not considered,
    • the biophysical limits may not be adequate to protect current generations from significant harm.
    • IF JUSTICE is not explicitly included, it can lead to a progress trap.
      • https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Progress+trap
  • Strict biophysical limits, such as reducing emissions or setting aside land for nature,
    • may lead to intended consequences that reduce access to food and land for vulnerable people.
    • To mitigate this, biophysical limited should be complemented by fair sharing and management of the remaining ecological space on Earth.

• = Earth system justice
• build upon = Doughnut economics socio-economic boundaries.

• Planetary justice scholarship goes further than global justice
• it:
  • calls for radical or profound changes to justice understandings in the Anthropocene,
  • critiques anthropocentricism,
  • calls for greater engagement with the non-human world
• Comment
  • See Symbiocene
  • https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Symbiocene

• Differences between Global North and Global south perspectives on earth system justice:
• Some scholars argue that in the Global North, the view tends to be ‘no humanity without nature’,
• while in the Global South, the focus is on ‘no nature without social justice’.

• Title
• Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
• Abstract
• Paraphrase
• Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just.
• Through collaboration between natural and social scientists, the = Earth Commission
  • defines and operationalizes = Earth system justice
  • to ensure that boundaries:
    • reduce harm,
    • increase well-being,
    • reflect substantive and procedural justice.
• Such stringent boundaries may also affect ‘just access’ to:
  • food,
  • water,
  • energy,
  • infrastructure.
• We show how boundaries may need to be adjusted to:
  • reduce harm,
  • increase access,
  • challenge inequality to ensure a safe and just future for people, other species and the planet.
• Earth system justice may enable living justly within boundaries.

• Title
  • Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
• Abstract

• Paraphrase

  • The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality.
  • However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich.
  • The ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was also accompanied by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using and damaging the environment.
  • To correct the great inequality, the authors define ‘just access’ to minimum energy, water, food and infrastructure.
  • The penality incurred for achieving just access in 2018, with existing inequalities, technologies and behaviours, would have produced 2–26% additional impacts on the Earth’s natural systems of climate, water, land and nutrients—thus further crossing planetary boundaries.
  • These hypothetical impacts, caused by about a third of humanity, equalled those caused by the wealthiest 1–4%.
  • Technological and behavioural changes thus far, while important, did not deliver just access within a stable Earth system.
  • Achieving these goals therefore calls for a radical redistribution of resources.

• Comment

  • Check the 1/3 figure against the 2/3 figure equal to 4% of the wealthiest in the Earth System Justice paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01064-1#annotations:3cWMhLv6Ee2jgD9EDXKNVA

• The conclusion of this study is that the ultimate definition of justice is that all of us have a right to a stable planet.
• Earth System Boundaries are like doughnut economics and include social justice as well.
• Earth System Justice is a multi-dimensional definition of justice including:
  • justice among present nations, communities and individuals (Intragenerational Justice),
  • justice for future generations (Intergenerational justice),.
  • justice for other living things and Earth system stability (‘Interspecies Justice and Earth system stability’)