Reimagining development
We need low carbon development and we need to create food security, energy security, and robust, resilient systems that people will be able to provide for their needs, and provide for their families, and so on.
We need low carbon development and we need to create food security, energy security, and robust, resilient systems that people will be able to provide for their needs, and provide for their families, and so on.
Equity is a really challenging thing, when you’re dealing with equity…on a geographic scale.
Is the end goal about economic growth and increasing wealth or is the end goal…human well-being and quality of life?
…the foundation that needs to be laid, we have to do it right now in the struggle to say ‘no!’ and send a clear message about where we should go.
…[First Nations communities] were the original communists without the authoritarianism, really, truly.
….all the things that people understand [come through struggle], not by some theoretical discussion, [but] by creating an action based on what it is people want and when you do that action, the action itself leads to awareness….
To give people a chance to really explicate the intricacies of what they model for a better society, I mean to some extent that’s good.