Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future
Part front matter for Part II Building an ecosocial imaginary
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Published:May 2023
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Part I of this book argued that the contemporary capitalist political economy’s destructive impacts on both environmental sustainability and society underpins the urgent and compelling need for transformation. The case for an ecosocial state is manifold, from the obvious perspective of climate change, but also from the wider perspective of systemic change. Our political economy models and our related worlds of welfare capitalism are deficient, failing to secure gender and other equalities, socio-economic justice, health and wellbeing, social reproduction, democratic participation as well as sustainable ecologies. The case for change is altogether stronger from these multiple perspectives and demands a comprehensive politics of transformation embracing recognition, redistribution, representation and sustainability (Fraser, 2013).
Part II attempts to apply the theory to practice and link welfare reform with the urgent need to decarbonise the economy and pursue other environmental goals including biodiversity. While a variety of policies are needed, as illustrated in the ‘Policy ingredients for a post-growth ecosocial world’ box in Chapter 3, the focus here is on three core options:
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