Morocco: Colonial Context (with Meriem)

Environment   Sep 24, 2017 by Kherraz Ayman

• How does your footprint reflect the economy of your country, including its colonial relations?

In general, the ecological footprint of a person is a reflection of their style of living. The more a person consumes, the larger their ecological footprint. And the level of consumption is tightly related to the income. The higher a person's income gets, the more products they buy. In a larger scale, we can say that the more a country is developed economically, the larger it's footprint. But this is not a general rule, a country might be developed economically and has less footprint than a developing one. This happens if the inhabitants are aware of the danger the nature is facing and consequently adapt their lifestyle to lessen the harm our planet is suffering from. So if i take my ecological footprint (60% carbon footprint and 3,5 earth if everyone lived like me) we can suppose that my country is developing, wich is the case.

• How are the effects of climate change related with power imbalances among countries or within countries?

Power imbalances among countries and within countries is one of the hugest causes of climat change. For example: Within my country, some none-powerful organizations want to protect the environment but it's useless if it's against someone powerful because they can't access those who only care about themselves and have a governmental power. And for power imbalances among countries: The developing countries have low gazes emissions and respect nature but the developed countries such as China and USA have very high gazes emissions and they won't stop causing climat change because the other countries don't have the power to force them to stop.

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