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<p>It is accepted that the main reason for climate change and its negative consequences as a result of the increase in</p><p>carbon emissions in the world we live in is the multifaceted production-consumption activities of human beings that</p><p>are not compatible with nature, today's economy (profit) oriented investment policies, destruction of natural resources</p><p>and ecosystems, excessive consumption of fossil resources, improper and misuse of land, increasing construction and</p><p>urbanization, lack of responsibility and ethical approaches, etc. In this context, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)</p><p>emissions, especially carbon emissions, and increasing carbon sink areas are accepted as the most critical strategic</p><p>discourse and actions in solving the global climate change crisis. However, the emergence and solution of this</p><p>problem stems from today's current economic and political understanding and neoliberalism policies that affect every</p><p>aspect of our lives. While the global powers that cause the increase in greenhouse gases want developing or</p><p>underdeveloped countries to pay the bill for the climate change problem, neoliberal policies, and approaches, which</p><p>plan to profit from this crisis at the same time, claim that they contribute to the fight against climate change with</p><p>carbon markets created by using commodification, commercialization, and deregulation tools. As a result,</p><p>neoliberals, who exploit nature as the source of human life, with their greed for profit, shape the studies and</p><p>agreements carried out in the international arena to form and solve the climate change problem in line with their</p><p>interests. In this context, the carbon markets included in the Kyoto Protocol, which are based on the commodification</p><p>of nature and presented as a solution, are an indicator of this approach. The fact that carbon markets are highly</p><p>vulnerable to capture by influential global market actors, oversimplifying the complexity of climate change, promoting</p><p>private gains at the expense of public welfare, commodifying carbon, excessively increasing the cost of production,</p><p>and passing it on to consumers, inadequate supervision and control mechanisms, unequal and unbalanced sharing,</p><p>ethical dimension, etc. are considered as severe arguments for this purpose. As a result, combating climate change</p><p>requires a direct struggle against capitalism and neoliberal ideology, especially the transformation of solutions</p><p>compatible with nature into action.</p> |
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