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conversations that directly revolve around reliance systems in some ways. These examples – universal basic income and the Green New Deal – involve different systems, different political lines, and vary in terms of their global reach. We purposely chose a more global example and a more regional (North Atlantic) example to highlight the scalability of this framework. The spatial contract framework in practice: universal basic income The idea of providing no-strings-attached money to all citizens or residents – a basic income, or universal basic
planetary boundaries, but many fewer capacities are produced. 23 Every reliance system processes energy and matter at different rates. Provisioning human freedoms while respecting planetary boundaries is extremely difficult. It is systemspecific, so to think about ecological solutions in terms of an abstract, broad, ‘new social contract’ is extremely difficult. Calls for a ‘new social contract’ are searching for a generalized politics which replicates a settlement between capital and labour but with ecological sensibilities, a ‘green new deal’. 24 The
contemporary world: the Green New Deal, a vision for combating climate change and economic inequality through a massive retrofit of energy and related systems, and Universal Basic Income, a set of proposals to provide a minimum salary to all persons. We also acknowledge the important and numerous limitations of the book, limitations which point the way towards future interventions in the development of the spatial contract as a framework. Seen together, this book offers three interlocking frameworks for a new politics of reliance systems. It is an intellectual
most openly as a ‘radical eco-socialist critique of capitalism’ as found in the work of Naomi Klein. 8 Extinction Rebellion don’t simply make this argument in writing; they take to the streets to demand a structural shift to a new social order, which puts people and the planet before corporate profits. As a narrative of protest, it is powerful and appealing, though the story is stronger on critique than it is on articulating a feasible alternative. The more radical proposals for a Green New Deal align with this perspective