{"id":1119,"date":"2025-10-02T04:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/sharing-the-pie\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:47","slug":"sharing-the-pie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/sharing-the-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing The Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"edit image\">\n\t<\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Sharing the pie\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/6334\/17394\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSharing the pie<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/spoor-jojanneke\/\">Jojanneke Spoor<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26 June 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Susan George is Chairperson of TNI. She introduces the 2011 Fellows Meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"block video\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iRXyfFEYEZY&amp;width=853&amp;height=480\" class=\"imageThumb\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"play\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/video\/video_play.png\" alt=\"Video: \"><\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"fullscreen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/video\/video_fullscreen.gif\" alt=\"Video: \"><\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"image\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n            <\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>When talking about sharing the pie, dividing resources, what are your expectations of the Rio+20 Summit?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">I don\u2019t expect much from any official conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\" target=\"_blank\">your book<\/a> you mention that popular movements are the only way of dealing with the current crises. Is the Arab spring showing us the way?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Most politics in the Arab region are amazingly national. For the international issues, which are finance and climate change, you have to act through different actors. This is beginning to happen in the movement against climate change. In Copenhagen we saw social and ecological movements come together \u2013 groups that weren\u2019t used to working together. And that marriage has now been consummated. What we are missing \u2013 for the moment \u2013 are some of these nationalist human dignity movements in the Arab world. Hopefully, as they become more conscious of what the issues are and the problems they\u2019ll have to confront \u2013 assuming that they take power \u2013 they will prove to be more internationalist than the governments that are now negotiating our future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The climate talks have disintegrated into a totally nationalistic battle. China takes a position as China. The United States takes a position according to US interests. There is no thought at all of what\u2019s good for the world, for people everywhere. This is a terrible lag. I can\u2019t see any other agent than a broad social movement confronting this. We have problems there. We are not united. My main fear is that we don\u2019t have time to wait for the political developments and cohesion of the social movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>How do the social movements of today compare to those of ten years ago?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Infinitely better. But we are against extremely powerful forces who are playing an enormously short-term game. Depressing. And it may be fatal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>You suggest that scholars should change their focus. Studying the poor didn\u2019t yield any improvements. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">We have to focus on the rich. The UN has been studying the poor to death. We know everything there is to know about the poor. Studying millionaires however, or the derivative associations, the lobbies in Brussels, that\u2019s less popular. But there is improvement there too. There is a very good movement on trade and trade negotiations. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter-eu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alter EU<\/a>, a very cohesive Water Movement, Trade Unions. It\u2019s not a dead field. 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