The International Trade Union Movement

In the Era of "Digital Individualism":

The Transition to Syncretistic* Coexistence with Nature

 

( *Syncretism – a combination of heterogeneous systems without combining them).

 

Adaptation to climate change has already become a major challenge for society. Together with other planetary threats, this challenge means a transition to a syncretic coexistence with Nature and requires a new viable economic infrastructure.

 

Economic syncretism, denoting the combination of any heterogeneous systems without combining them, acts today as an economic alternative to corporate structures seeking unification, monopolization, cost minimization and takeovers. This syncretism becomes the new ideology of today's era of "digital individualism" and allows the creation of a new "infrastructure of the economy" that can ensure the reproduction of the biosphere's potential, withstand natural disasters, extreme weather conditions, migration challenges, wars, and provide new quality jobs.

 

The implementation of qualitatively new projects to adapt to climate change requires:

·        effective organizational form;

·        a platform for economic and legal interaction;

·        governance institutions.

 

TheInternational Trade Union Movement is a ready-made organizational form that can ensure inclusive and cross-border stakeholder engagement in climate change adaptation projects.

 

The International Trade Union Movement is able to implement projects today in effective cooperation with banks, governments, corporations, academia, NGOs, and international organizations.

 

The implementation of these projects corresponds to the programs of the "economic green deal" adopted by the governments of many countries of the world, which are aimed at reducing environmental pollution (in particular, the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions), conserving biodiversity and combating environmental degradation (desertification, dehydration, deforestation).

 

The legal and technological basis for this activity is the signing of the International Agreement , which provides for the development of a digital institutional platform . This platform provides for the creation of polycentric institutions and Virtual Environments necessary for the management of projects, knowledge and intellectual property, legal relations and jurisdictions.

 

Climate change adaptation projects involve multilateral interaction between a large number of stakeholders from different jurisdictions. This means that new institutions are needed to legitimize new cross-border, economic, legal and social relations.

 

The management of mixed and new solidarity forms of financing, technology, innovation, complex projects and Artificial Intelligence requires appropriate "digital images" of objects and subjects. Such new "digital entities", which ensure the deployment of modern digital management mechanisms, are the institute of digital property and the institute of digital companies .

 

These institutions provide legal personality, legal relevance, arbitration, as well as regulation, taxation, and the legal basis for climate change adaptation projects. Moreover, these digital institutions harness the full potential of existing legal systems to deploy a new global frame of economic collaboration , making possible a transition to a syncretic coexistence with Nature .

 

To date, only the International Trade Union Movement that respects the principles of justice and solidarity has the set of qualities needed to address planetary problems. Only the International Trade Union Movement based on various global projects and new syncretistic platforms can ensure cross-border economic cooperation as well as the achievement of mutual trust, control and security in the face of growing challenges, economic uncertainty and societal aspirations for justice, solidarity and a viable future.