This is excellent and could apply to many other countries. I cannot comment on Thai democracy or governance but so-called ‘democracy’ is broken in the UK and parliament has lost credibility.
It’s reassuring to see such clear thinking coming from a people’s forum but sadly I doubt whether their government will listen.
They are correct when they identify exploitative capitalism* as the root cause. The UK should really be renamed UK PLC with the PM as CEO of a board of directors made up of the CEO’s of UK corporations and major donors. This would reflect the true power structure in the UK.
*I use the phrase “exploitative capitalism” because capitalism could be used to create wealth for the many rather than a greedy few as seems to be the prevailing ethos.
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, 1973
Number 5 above is particularly important: "5. Remove outdated, ineffective, and climate injustice solutions such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Geoengineering, nuclear power plant, and hydroelectric power plant from the discussion." CCS is a govt-funded boondoggle at extravagant cost which, even if effective, would merely allow continued business-as-usual, and I would INSIST that the oxygen is returned to the atmosphere and not buried with the carbon. Nuclear power is a 300,000-year curse on the planet due to the waste problem. "Geoengineering" would attempt to cool the planet by spraying sulfur compounds into the stratosphere, in order to maintain fossil-fuel burning, meanwhile, it is too cold to grow many crops such as rice. Hydro power dams totally destroy the most productive lands- the deltas downstream. "Net-zero" is a scam which sounds nice but really, absolute-zero is needed, now! We are already set to blow by 1.5 degrees; we presently have enough CO2 in the atmosphere for 10 degrees, but that is presently being mitigated by aerosols (air pollution). Yes, lobbyists MUST be kicked out of ALL debates, everywhere!
This is excellent and could apply to many other countries. I cannot comment on Thai democracy or governance but so-called ‘democracy’ is broken in the UK and parliament has lost credibility.
It’s reassuring to see such clear thinking coming from a people’s forum but sadly I doubt whether their government will listen.
They are correct when they identify exploitative capitalism* as the root cause. The UK should really be renamed UK PLC with the PM as CEO of a board of directors made up of the CEO’s of UK corporations and major donors. This would reflect the true power structure in the UK.
*I use the phrase “exploitative capitalism” because capitalism could be used to create wealth for the many rather than a greedy few as seems to be the prevailing ethos.
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, 1973
Great that Deklaration. Clear words on a world in trouble and confusion.
Number 5 above is particularly important: "5. Remove outdated, ineffective, and climate injustice solutions such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Geoengineering, nuclear power plant, and hydroelectric power plant from the discussion." CCS is a govt-funded boondoggle at extravagant cost which, even if effective, would merely allow continued business-as-usual, and I would INSIST that the oxygen is returned to the atmosphere and not buried with the carbon. Nuclear power is a 300,000-year curse on the planet due to the waste problem. "Geoengineering" would attempt to cool the planet by spraying sulfur compounds into the stratosphere, in order to maintain fossil-fuel burning, meanwhile, it is too cold to grow many crops such as rice. Hydro power dams totally destroy the most productive lands- the deltas downstream. "Net-zero" is a scam which sounds nice but really, absolute-zero is needed, now! We are already set to blow by 1.5 degrees; we presently have enough CO2 in the atmosphere for 10 degrees, but that is presently being mitigated by aerosols (air pollution). Yes, lobbyists MUST be kicked out of ALL debates, everywhere!