{"id":27576,"date":"2012-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/consumerism-happiness-and-environment\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:48:56","slug":"consumerism-happiness-and-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/consumerism-happiness-and-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumerism, happiness, and environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son las preguntas que olvidan los responsables del fracaso de R\u00edo+20 y los que contribuimos diariamente a la crisis ambiental. Si los habitantes de los pa\u00edses pobres compraran carros al ritmo de los ricos, \u201c\u00bfcu\u00e1nto ox\u00edgeno nos quedar\u00eda para poder respirar?\u201d. \u00bfA qui\u00e9n se le ocurre \u201cque 7.000, 8.000 millones de personas puedan tener el mismo grado de consumo y de despilfarro que tienen las m\u00e1s opulentas sociedades occidentales\u201d? \u201cVenimos a la vida intentando ser felices\u201d, nos recuerda Mujica, \u201c\u00bfpero si la vida se me va a escapar trabajando y trabajando para consumir?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Que miles de personas les hayan sacado unos minutos a sus fren\u00e9ticas vidas para ver el discurso muestra que est\u00e1n buscando respuestas. Algunos las han encontrado en otros videos que se han regado como p\u00f3lvora en YouTube, como la serie sobre La historia de las cosas. Para que todos cumpli\u00e9ramos el sue\u00f1o publicitario de consumir como un estadounidense, se necesitar\u00edan cuatro planetas Tierra. Ya hemos destruido el 80% de los bosques del mundo, talamos 2.000 \u00e1rboles por minuto en la Amazonia y estamos vaciando el 75% de los bancos de peces del planeta.<\/p>\n<p>El c\u00edrculo vicioso es evidente. Para aliviar el calor producido por el calentamiento global, los chinos y los indios invierten su nueva riqueza en millones de aparatos de aire acondicionado que expelen gases que aumentan a\u00fan m\u00e1s las temperaturas. Para reemplazar electrodom\u00e9sticos y computadores dise\u00f1ados para durar cada vez menos, compramos y botamos cada vez m\u00e1s. Cumplimos, en fin, la predicci\u00f3n que hace 60 a\u00f1os formulara V\u00edctor Lebow, el economista del consumismo: \u201cNuestra econom\u00eda enormemente productiva exige que hagamos del consumo nuestra forma de vida; que hagamos de comprar y usar cosas un ritual, que busquemos en el consumo nuestra satisfacci\u00f3n espiritual\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El problema no es s\u00f3lo personal, sino econ\u00f3mico y pol\u00edtico. La infelicidad individual del trabajo y el consumo sin fin van de la mano de la incapacidad de la econom\u00eda y la pol\u00edtica para trazar l\u00edmites. Los economistas, tan sofisticados para pensar el crecimiento, no tienen casi nada para decir cuando se les pregunta cu\u00e1nto es suficiente. Como lo dijo el irreverente economista E. F. Schumacher, \u201chay sociedades pobres que tienen demasiado poco. Pero \u00bfd\u00f3nde est\u00e1 la sociedad rica que dice \u201c\u00a1no m\u00e1s, tenemos lo suficiente!?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>De ah\u00ed la ineptitud de las soluciones para la crisis ambiental que han surgido de cumbres como las de R\u00edo, Kioto, Copenhage o Durban. Todas ellas \u2014los mercados de carbono, la \u2018econom\u00eda verde\u2019, el \u2018desarrollo sostenible\u2019\u2014 dejan intacta la l\u00f3gica del crecimiento. Nada en ellas modera la competencia por los minerales y las fuentes de energ\u00eda que son esenciales para mantener girando el carrusel del consumo, aunque para ello sea preciso contaminar p\u00e1ramos, desecar lagunas, represar r\u00edos o volar las tapas de las monta\u00f1as.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso los gobiernos y las empresas pueden seguir hablando de \u201cdesarrollo sostenible\u201d o \u201cresponsabilidad social empresarial\u201d al paso que deterioran el medio ambiente. Mientras Dilma Rousseff escuchaba el discurso de su colega uruguayo, su gobierno repel\u00eda en la Amazonia la protesta contra la gigantesca represa de Belo Monte, cuyo primer muro terminaba de estrangular el gran r\u00edo Xing\u00fa. Al tiempo que el gobierno colombiano impulsaba en Brasil los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, exped\u00eda la resoluci\u00f3n que ampli\u00f3 en 17 millones de hect\u00e1reas las zonas de reserva estrat\u00e9gica minera para darle impulso a la locomotora.<br \/>\nTiene raz\u00f3n Mujica: \u201cla gran crisis no es ecol\u00f3gica, es pol\u00edtica\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video of the Uruguayan Jos\u00e9 Mujica scolding his fellow presidents at the summit of Rio +20 has traveled the world. A speech full of simple questions, the kind that occur to a man who donates 90% of his salary because the rest is enough to sustain his simple life on a farm and get to work on a Volkswagen Model 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","subcategory-institutional-strengthening","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Consumerism, happiness, and environment - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/consumismo-felicidad-y-medio-ambiente\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Consumerism, happiness, and environment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The video of the Uruguayan Jos\u00e9 Mujica scolding his fellow presidents at the summit of Rio +20 has traveled the world. 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