(...common goals...)
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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.
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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.
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(...system change...)
How do we break the ideological hegemony of capitalism?
What can replace the unequal exchange mechanisms of capitalism?
How do we turn global supply chains into planetary solidarity chains?
Why is the neighborhood perspective essential to sustainable human development?
How is radical democracy and radical creativity related to human needs?
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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.
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(...socio-ecological revolution...)
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If we are to determine our own future, all revolutionary processes, short-term as well as long-term, must become locally rooted, relying on the power of neighborhood-loving people.
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(...time for the planet...)
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(...co-deciding...)
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(...co-developing...)
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(...co-existing...)
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Lack of empathy can be devastating, but no one is born a killer; everyone can change direction, everyone can change through love.
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Still falling, covering the ground; already organic matter, already digested by worms; teaching us to love, keeping us alive.
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