Workshop: A112 Geopolitical confrontation instead of green transformation

None of the major global problems have been dealt with in the spirit of multilateralism. Instead, we are witnessing a renaissance of geopolitical conflicts. The workshop will explain why the "perfect storm" brewing at the end of the second phase of globalisation has the potential to usher in the beginning of the end of capitalism.

There is no world region that has not been subjected to geo-economic competition since the late 1990s. But contrary to what was expected in the 1990s, not a single one of the major global problems has been dealt with in the spirit of multilateralism. This applies first and foremost to the planetary ecological crises that now threaten the future of humanity as a whole. Neither the EU nor other world regions have reacted with political measures that could avoid the worst-case scenario.
Instead, we are witnessing a renaissance of geopolitical conflicts: these still revolve around access to and prices of fossil fuels, but they also increasingly revolve around "critical metals" that are needed for the electrification of industry and transportation as well as for the digitalisation of the economy and society.
The ecological crisis has already become the "new normal" in many world regions and is accompanied by hunger, intra- and interstate conflicts and increasingly repressive measures of authoritarian control. The war in Ukraine is being used as an opportunity to postpone or avert even modest approaches to ecological regulation.
The workshop will explain why the "perfect storm" brewing at the end of the second phase of globalisation has the potential to usher in the beginning of the end of capitalism.

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Day: 2022-08-18
Start time: 10:00
Duration: 01:45
Room: SE02 Organization:
Track: Capitalism, health and social crisis
Language: de

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