Ireland in the global economy: does Ireland contribute to ecological damage in the global south?

Critical Ecologies

It is becoming ever more clear that we face widespread and worsening ecological breakdown. However, while these issues are global, their causes and disastrous effects are not evenly distributed. The poorest often already facing the worst of the disruption, endangering lives and livelihoods. Is there a connection between what has made regions poor and the climate harms they face? In this podcast, Paul Goldrick-Kelly discusses the concept of uneven ecological exchange. Over the course of the conversation, Paul discusses how this theory developed, how it might explain the link between material and ecological poverty globally, where Ireland fits within global uneven ecological exchange, and the implications of all this for spatial and environmental justice.