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Climate change and capitalism’s ecological fi x in Latin America Eduardo Gudynas The issue of climate change has recently acquired great prominence in South America. It has received considerable coverage in the mainstream media, been the object of many citizen-led campaigns and has at least been discursively acknowledged by governments and some companies. Yet despite this growing presence in public debate, the question is whether the proposals that have been circulated so far are really aimed at devising eff ective measures to tackle climate change. The analysis in the present text shows that the discourses of all South American governments today, while not denying the challenge of climate change, present it in a distorted way. Climate change is thus rendered as functional for a process of commodifi cation of nature and a reorientation of environmental policy. Even under leftwing governments, South America is witnessing the redeployment of variations on the theme of faith in progress through the appropriation of nature, thus preventing the substantive agreements that would be necessary to confront climate change. A distorted perspective on climate change All the governments of South America are worried about climate change. The reasons are 36 Critical Currents no. 6 Eduardo Gudynas is director of the Latin American Center on Social Ecology (CLAES), a think tank on sustainable development based in Uruguay. varied, and range from possible losses in agricultural production, the disappearance of the Andean ice fi elds, coastline changes, declines in tourism or the eff ects of an increase in natural disasters. Their emphases, too, are very diverse, from enraged speechifying to the establishment of scientifi c committees and the promotion of campaigns. Concomitantly, the conventional media
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