Does the WSF need an Ideology?
by - 18.03.2004 15:34
Kishen Pattnayak, of the National Association of People's Movements (NAPM)
of India, is one of the most prominent Gandhian activists and thinkers. The
following text was actually written as a critique of WSF, but the second
part, with its reflexion on the failure of the old left to fundamentally
criticise the ideal of economic growth, "prosperity", and on the disaster
awaiting industrial society, has a direct bearing on the defense of small
farming.
There was a consensus at the PGA meeting in Mumbai that the
defense of agriculture is the centerpiece of a much wider problem: the
defense of all forms of life that are urgently menaced precisely by
economic growth and its consequences - in particular (but not only) global
warming. Recent scientific research on the consequences of climate change
(published in the journal Nature) concludes that 1 out of 4 (25% !) of the
1000 species studied will be EXTINCT in 2050.
If we continue with "growth", industrialisation and urbanisation we will
destroy small farming globally and we will destroy the planet.
http://www.samajwadi.blogspot.com/
defense of agriculture is the centerpiece of a much wider problem: the
defense of all forms of life that are urgently menaced precisely by
economic growth and its consequences - in particular (but not only) global
warming. Recent scientific research on the consequences of climate change
(published in the journal Nature) concludes that 1 out of 4 (25% !) of the
1000 species studied will be EXTINCT in 2050.
If we continue with "growth", industrialisation and urbanisation we will
destroy small farming globally and we will destroy the planet.
http://www.samajwadi.blogspot.com/