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with irony. The central paradox is this: markets—those dynamic and resilient means of organizing modern economic life that are linked to so much ecological destruction—are increasingly being used as tools [...] development and resource use— bound up with but distinctfrom carbon emissions and global warming per se—seems to be threatening the continued existence of biological life itself. Some ecologists warn [...] of species, and to such severe pollution of the at- mosphere with greenhouse gasses that human beings are becoming a geologic force unto ourselves, changing the course and character of life on Earth
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(arild.vatn@nmbu.no) Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway _________________________________________________________________________ Carbon trading has been envisioned as a kind of Polanyian fictitious [...] . Polanyi emphasized that labour and land was life itself, not produced for trade. Hence, commodifying them and “leaving the fate and soil and people to the market would be tantamount to annihilating them. [...] constructed – real commodities (at least in a Polanyian sense): they are fabricated for exchange in markets but are not, in any direct sense, foundational elements of economic (or ecological) life” (Rea,
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