With Durban and climate change nowhere to be seen in the newspapers the silence is deafening.

“We are afraid to share, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth”………        

 Severn Suzuki  gave the “speech that stopped the world for 7 minutes” at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. 20 years later the intergenerational pact on sharing with the future is crumbling as many western countries seek to extricate themselves from binding committments.

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The 1992 conference produced Agenda 21. That document presented the Agenda for the 21st Century. It gave background for the prevention of the pollution of the atmosphere evolving into IPCC, Kyoto regulation, and also framed the Millenium Development Goals, the plan to end world poverty by 2015.

STEPS TO CONSIDER IMMEDIATELY.

1/ Given we are adding 1 billion people to the global population every 12 years there MUST be a global family planning campaign, embraced by the Catholic Church

2/ Bank bail outs MUST stop.

3/ A true global financial statement MUST be presented.

4/ A global financial transactions tax MUST be introduced.

5/ Corporations MUST cease to be citizens.

6/ Banks MUST cease financial trading.

7/ Planetary limits MUST be recognised in ALL resources.

8/ A low growth – Steady State Economy is the “most optimistic” future scenario and MUST be tested. The “contraction” MUST begin.

9/ A “shared economy” MUST develop resilience and human resources for the energy descent.

10/ “1 man 1 vote” +  COMPULSORY VOTING FOR ALL CITIZENS.

11/ Fossil fuel subsidies MUST be transferred to renewables.

12/ A moratorium on financially driven migration MUST be introduced.

BUT FIRST WE HAVE TO LEARN TO SHARE.

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