DEMOCRATISE OR DIE (LITERALLY)! THOUGHTS ON SUSTAINABILITY PART 4

My new article for Miista on why democracy is incompatible with a politics of parties and how Extinction Rebellion has hit the mark. Follow the link:

https://miista.com/democratise-or-die-literally-thoughts-on-sustainability-part-4

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WHAT DO GREEN NEW DEALS LACK? THOUGHTS ON SUSTAINABILITY PART 3

"I have found several important lacks in the bills, electoral promises and manifestos presented under the Green New Deal title and philosophy:

1. The ambiguity of their understanding of sustainability by not being clear on their account of development.
2. The absence of provisions regarding robotisation and artificial intelligence, their consequences for employment and the possibilities they might open to help humans adapt to and/or better the new environmental reality.
3. The absence of proposals or demands with regards to privacy and commodification in the sphere of big data. Scandals such as that of Cambridge Analytica have made public the possibility of using big data for derailing democratic processes much more than the usual, and democratisation is vital for Green New Deals.
4. (Perhaps) an insufficient democratic deepening, which is a crucial issue. The possibility that it is democratisation what will bring Green New Deals to implementation and not the opposite should be seriously taken into account."

New article for Miista: https://miista.com/what-do-green-new-deals-lack-thoughts-on-sustainability-part-3

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