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George Monbiot
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George Monbiot
Aiiight!!! Het kwartje valt laat,maar het valt.
Het was wel even puzzelen hier op nvdd tussen jou en IBn Rushd.
Een mooie 1-2´tje !!
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...hingya-myanmar
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Common Wealth
maandag 2 oktober 2017
That it is necessary to explain the commons testifies to their neglect (despite the best efforts of political scientists like the late Elinor Ostrom). A commons is neither state nor market. It has three main elements. First a resource, such as land, water, minerals, scientific research, hardware or software. Second, a community of people who have shared and equal rights to this resource, and organise themselves to manage it. Third, the rules, systems and negotiations they develop to sustain it and allocate the benefits.
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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Vote often
vrijdag 20 oktober 2017
This column explores the potential for a more participatory democracy. I’m not proposing we abandon representative democracy, but that we temper it with meaningful deliberation and consent.
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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The Smog Chancellor
donderdag 21 september 2017
Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.
Which living person has done most to destroy the natural world and the future wellbeing of humanity?
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[…] has a fatal weakness: a weakness for the lobbying power of [...] industry. Whenever a crucial issue needs to be resolved, she weighs her ethics against political advantage, and chooses the advantage.
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She is alleged to have threatened the then president of the European Council, the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny, with the cancellation of Ireland’s bailout funds. She told the Netherlands and Hungary that the [...] car plants in their countries would be closed. She struck a filthy deal with David Cameron, offering to frustrate European banking regulations if he helped her to block the fuel regulations. Through these brutal strategies, she managed to derail the agreement. The €700,000 donation her party then received from the major shareholders in BMW was doubtless a complete surprise.
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But this could be the least of the environmental disasters she has engineered. For this lethal concession to [..] car companies was pre-dated by an even worse one, in 2007. In that case, her blunt refusal – supported by the usual diplomatic bullying – to accept proposed improvements in engine standards forced the European commission to find another means of reducing greenhouse gases. It chose, disastrously, to replace fossil fuel with biofuels, a switch [...] has vociferously defended.
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All these are real impacts, while the paper agreements she helped to broker have foundered and dissipated, as a result of special favours and dirty deals of the kind I have listed in this article. Yet still she attracts an aura of sanctity. This is quite an achievement, for the world’s leading environmental vandal.
www.monbiot.com
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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Urge, Splurge, Purge
vrijdag 15 september 2017
The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse
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For (...) there cannot be a problem. The market is meant to be self-correcting: that’s what the theory says. As Milton Friedman, one of the architects of neoliberal ideology, put it, “Ecological values can find their natural space in the market, like any other consumer demand”. As long as environmental goods are correctly priced, neither planning nor regulation are required. Any attempt by governments or citizens to change the likely course of events is unwarranted and misguided.
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Even to discuss such flaws is a kind of blasphemy, because the theory allows no role for political thought and action. The system is supposed to operate not through deliberate human agency, but through the automatic writing of the invisible hand. Our choice is confined to deciding which goods and services to buy. (...)
www.monbiot.com
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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We can't keep eating like this
maandag 11 december / woensdag 13 december 2017
By mid-century there will be two or three billion more people on Earth. Any one of the issues I am about to list could help precipitate mass starvation. And this is before you consider how they might interact.
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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The Unseen World
donderdag 28 december 2017 / guardian dinsdag 19 december 2017
To be aware of the wonder and enchantment of the world, its astonishing creatures and complex interactions, and to be aware simultaneously of the remarkably rapid destruction of almost every living system, is to take on a burden of grief that is almost unbearable. This is what the great conservationist Aldo Leopold meant when he wrote that “one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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Resisting Resistance
zaterdag 17 februari 2018
Over antibiotica – en handel.
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
Laatst gewijzigd door Olive Yao; 23-09-20 om 18:00.
De meeste Westerse politici tonen zich vijanden van de mensen in de wereld.
Most Western politicians show themselves to be enemies of the peoples of the world.
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