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Copyright Bruce Nixon 2010. All rights reserved. This electronic copy is provided free for personal, non-commercial use only. www.brucenixon.com pressure on our governments and demand processes that properly include the poorer nations. Otherwise all of us will all lose. Support the following: Via Campesina, Climate Justice Action Network, ALBA- Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, Greenpeace, Christian Aid and the Youth forum on climate change. 204
Copyright Bruce Nixon 2010. All rights reserved. This electronic copy is provided free for personal, non-commercial use only. www.brucenixon.com Chapter 16 - What we need to do; how we can make it happen; what you can do August 2009 through September2010 "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller What we need to do The whole of humanity needs to make a paradigm shift. The essential message is: we have to learn to live as part of nature and in harmony with one another. This is a summary of what we need to do: The Paradigm Shift Learn to live as part of nature, within Mother Earth’s limits, and tackle the environmental crisis End the destruction of the ecosystem on which all life depends Embrace prosperity without growth Substitute wellbeing for GDP as the measure of progress Create a global economy that is fair to all humanity and puts an end to poverty Make democracy fully representative and participatory at all levels. Transform the way we do politics from an adversarial process to a consensus building collaboration in which everyone wins Recognise that injustice leads to violence and violence rarely works Invest in even- handed foreign policies and conflict resolution rather than war Collaborate globally to fairly distribute the planet’s resources Create a new identity for ourselves, not based on power and wealth but living well and being stewards and servant leaders This might sound idealistic or utopian. But as Satish Kumar says: “Now is the time to give idealism a chance”. “Realism” has not done too well. Millions of people can exercise enormous power by lobbying governments and corporations and using customer choice. "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." Dr Martin Luther King How we can make it happen The strategies set out in Part Two are summarised here: Strategies Green the world economy to tackle climate change, peak oil and ecological destruction Radically rethink what we mean by Globalisation Get control of big business and government at all levels and ensure they meet our needs, not their ambitions Create a new monetary system, not based on debt and sustainable, fair taxation, land value tax and citizens income Transform democracy at every level from global to local, giving power to people, providing real choice and government that serves citizens Apply the principle of Subsidiarity – not all problems can be solved locally 205
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