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7. Stop Dictatorship - Stop Climate Change The mirage of consumer choice is rapidly dissipating. As essential resources dry up and fail, so too does the legitimacy of global society's driving economic model. Up until now, industrialism has advanced by one simple principle: production occurs if and only if there is financial profit to be made from the production processes. As much democracy as we have thus far known has been proscribed by this principle's moderated dictate. We live under the dictatorship of profitability, made socially accountable for but a short time and declining fast (both profitability and accountability). From this primary principle, many others result: A. Profit will be abstracted from the Earth, until the Earth hits back: climate change, toughening conditions, increasing privation, gross species and human sacrifices.. B. Political parties articulate diverse policies and personnel, but the party that ultimately succeeds in uniting people for their own salvation will be that which - as its central priority - tackles the profit motive mechanism, by building its alternative: functioning community network economies, validated low-carbon lifestyle, non-abstract trade.. C. Those administrators, corporate and governmental, extracting large salaries from Earth extraction are in the moral wrong - as a wasteful social minority. Power alone authenticates their self-interested denial of life on Earth's abuse. Disempowering this minority is obviously necessary, and can be achieved through the cause of peace - because the cause of war is the dictators' speciality. [The means is the end.] |
Green Future offers a practical programme for connecting the Green politics of today with a salvaged, surviveable ecosystem of the near Future. D. Capitalist dictatorship transacts with outright dictatorship, as soul-mate. Fossil fuels will be extracted from or by one form of dictatorship, and sold to the other - for more profitabile labour exploitation. Across the board, therefore, capitalist democracy is a stilted misnomer that history must build upon and transcend - delivering real democracy for all, based on shared, sustainable economy. E. Someone has to save the world, so it might as well be us. Clean air aids praxis, yet no thought is required to grasp that everyone in the communicated world knows the identifying New Zealand colour (our inner national psyche) is green: kakariki means home. Let us export the working economic solution a gasping planet so desperately craves, by prototyping it here. Let sustainable human ecology be the global legacy New Zealand becomes known for. That is, let us prepare a viable alternative now to the profit-loss storm to soon come, that will otherwise swallow us. |