Follow-up reading to our study of Ladakh
Local Futures Action Paper: "Climate Change or System Change?"
Themes from the study of indigenous societies
1. health – holistic (restoring balance) vs reductive (controlling symptoms)
Local Futures Action Paper: "Climate Change or System Change?"
Themes from the study of indigenous societies
1. health – holistic (restoring balance) vs reductive (controlling symptoms)
2. justice – restorative & DIY (focus on relationships) vs retributive, job of the state (focused on damages to individuals - equality)
3. social structure – egalitarian & heterarchical (matricentric) vs stratified & hierarchical (patriarchal)
4. trade – gift-based, focused on group cohesion (principle of socialism) vs money-based, focused on individual consumption (capitalism)
5. worldview – spiritual with a basis in shared identity vs materialistic with a basis in separate identity
6. economy – decentralized and steady-state vs centralized, expanding
7. agriculture – resilient, nature-based, self-sufficient vs “efficient”, hydrocarbon-based, and specialized for export
8. entertainment – personal, direct & DIY vs impersonal, mediated, passive
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