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This phenomenon - when, under the guise of "development", processes are imposed on us that are essentially destructive to nature and society - was described back in the 1980s by the Indian scientist Vandana Shiva in her book "Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development". In it, she analyzes the capitalist "development" of Indian forests and rivers in the 80s.

Forests that provided shelter to thousands of species of animals and plants, feeding thousands and tens of thousands of people, were replaced by commercial eucalyptus plantations. Nature perished - plants, animals, people died, having lost their source of food, but the companies that traded in timber and the state, reporting an increase in GDP, received benefits. Something similar happened during the construction of giant dams. Dam spills destroyed cultural monuments and entire ecosystems. people were evicted by the millions from their rural homes downstream into cardboard boxes on the outskirts of big cities, condemning them to poverty, hunger and despair. electricity from hydroelectric power stations on dams turned out to be not so profitable in the end, dams did not help to fight drought either, but the winners were the firms engaged in the field of "development" - construction companies and their rich foreign partners. and all this was presented as an achievement for society as a whole.

shiva writes: what is called "development" in most cases is "damaging development" - a process that destroys the environment, social fabric, cultural heritage, giving almost nothing in return. it benefits a tiny percentage of the population and impoverishes everyone else, destroying their habitat. such "development" is a meat grinder, grinding nature and society for the sake of profit.

why does this happen?

Vandana Shiva writes: the thing is that "impaired development" thinks and acts in the spirit of reductionism. Reductionism is a type of thinking and acting in which complex phenomena and systems are simplified to the extreme (for example, when popular science articles write about a person as if all that matters is the balance of serotonin and dopamine in his brain, and culture, society, and upbringing play no role). Capitalist "development", Shiva writes, fundamentally ignores everything except profit. Looking at the complex systems of the surrounding world, it takes into account only those elements that can bring money into the pocket, and all the rest are ignored, replaced, and gradually destroyed. A healthy, ecologically clean forest is of no value to "impaired development", there are too many "extra" plants, animals, and birds there that you can't make money on. A eucalyptus plantation is a completely different matter. Yes, eucalyptus sucks moisture from the soil, drying out the land and lowering the groundwater level, but it can be cut down and sold, and money will flow into your pocket

Firstly, we are not alone - from every green yard where they want to put a high-rise building, from every area to be demolished, a thread stretches to the forests of India, the mountains of Greece, the valleys of Africa, the jungles of Brazil, the south of the USA after Hurricane Katrina - to the whole world where "damaging development" and its usual methods have been noted. And secondly, it is not at all inevitable, no matter how much its supporters and beneficiaries would like it to be. After all, even eucalyptus plantations in India - with all their incredible profitability - were partially banned in the 90s, and in 2017 were completely banned in one of the main growing states - thanks to the efforts of scientists, conscientious politicians, residents of cities and towns

This is from an ecological longread about Saint Petersburg . It was nice to see the influence of an indian woman on the development of thought and as a result the creation of the text.

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Beaware of your feelings about life,love life, academic expectations, challenges, and learn to accept that it's completely normal to feel that you are feeling?

Yours feelings is yours, and that's totally you ????

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