Trapped within the institutional framework of commodity exchange, every reformist attempt to mitigate or adapt to ongoing planetary changes such as global warming, ocean acidification, deforestation, freshwater depletion, and species extinction, is doomed to fail.
What is to be done can only be done together. Indeed, nothing should deter us from building new bonds of solidarity, from uniting our struggles for planetary sustainability.
In order to fulfill its promises, sustainable human development must replace ‘creative destruction’ with a new paradigm, turning our attention away from the production and consumption of goods and services towards the reproduction and well-being of all species – the long-term healing of the biosphere.
If we are to determine our own future, a number of revolutionary processes, short-term as well as long-term, must become locally rooted, relying on the power of people.