“double damage” inflicted by the wealthiest corporations and individuals who disproportionately contribute to climate breakdown through their outsized carbon emissions and who rob governments of the funding needed to address the fallout from climate breakdown by abusing tax
“Double damage” inflicted by wealthiest corporations and individuals highlights twin crises of climate breakdown and inequality The amount of tax lost every year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens is on par with the amount of money needed each year to cover the estimated cost of climate-induced loss and damage. In a […]
amount of tax lost every year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens is on par with the amount of money needed each year to cover the estimated cost of climate-induced loss and damage
領導人堅定信念貫徹始終與重視傳承，團隊的經營與群策群力才能走得長久
我們常遇到一開始很多人表達有興趣參與，但能夠堅持到底的人是少數，有時讓人感到孤單，甚至還要面對生態旅遊發展太慢、經濟上無法立竿見影的質疑。當滿懷理想想要協助社區走向永續的旅遊發展，但又是快不得，雖是居民的信心危機，但也在考驗著團隊的信念與決心
人事的問題最磨心，而一個社區總是需要一些「石磨仔心」。磨到現在，即便彼此曾經有過多次意見不合，甚至爭吵，至今還是很重視珍惜著彼此。「 十六年前，因為觀念不合，幾乎吵了快一整年」……曲折磨合
「社區的工作很磨人，更磨心。」「沒有傻子般的傻勁與執著，大概就做不了地方的工作。」
人事關係複雜，既勞心又勞力……很多次都想直接放棄了……除了與地方一起打拚的決心毅力之外，社區工作者有一定的的人格特質，視野高遠，也還需要有柔軟身段，才能低下身段、捲起袖子
高EQ，以及柔軟的身段
社區工作首先必須與地方做溝通，這是一個很大的挑戰。「如果想要將理念實踐，必得要透過溝通，有這一層功夫，概念方能轉譯成價值。」 但也唯有取得信任（信任是一種社會資本），居民聽得懂，社區才動得起來，否則美意到了地方，反而變成爭奪資源的戰場，更遑論還有因為工作分配不均、頭銜、意見不合等其他問題……
「社區工作，太笨或太聰明的人都做不起來的。」
做好社區工作可以養活自己，但是肯定不會賺大錢
現在的社會氛圍仍很『速食化』
「很多社區工作最後會『走鐘』”，主要是因為初衷的改變，如果志工的初衷從『為人民服務』，之後傾斜成『為人民幣服務』，最後自然不會有好的合作結果。」
可貴之處是在計畫形成初期，社區和公務同仁一起溝通討論形成共識的過程。另一個值得一提的是，社區林業計畫非常重視人才培育…巡護……長期下來累積社區的社會資本與環境資本
「夜間遊程是社頂部落生態旅遊一個很關鍵的里程碑，給了鄉親很大的信心，讓居民看到了希望與目標，從過去開會時的三三兩兩，轉變成大夥兒積極參與投入，凝聚了當時幾乎要瓦散掉的團隊。」陳美惠回憶道。
過程中的磨合，有時候因爲價值觀念不同，或有意氣之爭，反而形成小團體或甚至造成分裂
生態旅遊操作方式（總量管制、單一窗口、環境教育、培力造人、生態資源監測與保育、社區回饋 ）
社會面，制度面，文化面，環境面&經濟面
Socio-Ecological Production Landscape and Seascape
社會—生態的生產地景與海景
社經地位不高、人民剽悍，曾經是……一個化外之地
為什麼台灣政府相關單位仍故步自封？……政府在口頭上鼓勵山村發展微型經濟之餘，是否也能在法規上實際給予支持…協調，修訂出跟得上民間[小型創新企業]腳步的合理政策……？
地方創生最重要的在『人』，這個『人』代表的也是政府官員的思維
社區解說員很多原本可能生活沒有目標，但在接受訓練後整個人都變得有自信
臺灣最缺願意做事的人，談到做事，大家都會說好，「好、好、好！」「你去做就好！」但多年的社區經驗讓他發現，只要參與者覺得透過這樣的工作自己會有所成長，大多數的人還是會繼續再來參與。
勇氣是當你為了比你更高一層的存續而犧牲你自己的福祉
原文譯自Nassim Nicholas Taleb文章: The Logic of Risk Taking
我們的本性也許慣於對尾部風險”說不”。因為不用冒尾部風險就能賺錢的方法不計其數。不用複雜科技 — 這會導致脆弱和具未知尾部風險機率 — 就能解決問題(譬如說餵飽世界)的方法也不計其數。
Morris Pearl, Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and former Managing Director at BlackRock, said: “In recent decades, wealth inequality has skyrocketed around the world. The growing gap between rich and poor has destabilised the global economy, exacerbated the rise of extremist politics, and frayed the very fabric of our social order. As an ultra-wealthy person, representing an organisation of like-minded wealthy people, I am asking the G20 to tax us
In an open letter to the G20, close to 300 millionaires, economists, and political representatives from almost all G20 countries call for a new international agreement on wealth taxes to “stop extreme wealth from corroding our collective future”.
to reduce dangerous levels of inequality; if they fail to tax extreme wealth, the results will be a perpetually weakened global economy, the decline of democratic institutions, and worsening social unrest
the vested interests in maintaining the current system, including billionaires, the fossil fuel sector, big pharma, defense, and industrial agriculture will continue to fight to prevent the transformative changes needed. To overcome our societal addiction to the current system will require a broad consensus and movement of movements around the shared goal of sustainable wellbeing for humans and the rest of nature
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This chapter introduces the main themes covered in the book, including the landscape political ecology (LPE) framework, and how it helps to make sense of the type of controversies taking place in Penang. It also provides important scholarly context for the Penang case study, situating the book within earlier research on Penang and Malaysia in the urban studies literature. In particular, the chapter discusses the challenges that Penang’s urban centre of George Town has faced in balancing its considerable built heritage with its urban redevelopment aspirations over the past three decades. This tension is linked to broader aspirations at the national level with regards to modernization and urban development. Finally, the chapter introduces the significant civil society sector in Penang, and how they have shaped urban governance in the city-region.
"Preface" published on 06 May 2022 by Bristol University Press.
prioritizing profits over people
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