hiya,
there is a film called la belle verte (the green beautiful) by coline serreau
that is one of my all-time faves. you can watch it in 9 episodes on you tube,
which is fortunate because it is very hard to get hold of. the film was
unofficially banned soon after release. germany is the only country to have
shown the film on tv. this is all the more surprising given that it is a family
film, rated pg.
by the way if you would like a copy (with a pretty dvd case aswell!) i can send
you one. a friend of mine has managed to produce a subtitled pirate version and
i have been freely distributing them for a year now.
anyway let me mention something interesting about the film...which is also the
most likely single reason the film was banned.
okay - trying not to spoil too much here....there is a scene towards the end
where the two male 'visitors'are talking about the history of their own planet
and how it might help their friends see what changes humanity will soon be
going through (the visitors are more advanced humans than those on earth - they
have developed telepathy and interstellar travel for instance).
as the visitors relate, the end of their planet's industrial era was triggered
by two things:
1. any activity that was harmful to the planet was declared illegal.
this resulted in many professionals being declared criminals and led to a sort
of civil war situation - lotsa dischord and confusion.
2. what finally finished things off and ushered in the new era was the boycott.
people en masse refused to purchase goods that were unnecessary, of low
quality, or entailed damage to the planet in their production. the industrial
economy effectively stopped......
okay, and now to the the ethics of permaculture:
1. care of the planet
2. care of the people
3. fair share
these ethics could be used as a simple legal basis for the globalised world we
all live in. they are already, i believe, scientifically impossible to argue
against. a crime against nature is a crime against all.
also notice the word 'care'. 'care' is intimately associated with quality, as
pirsig relates in ZAMM. it is only when we care about what we are doing that
quality results...
the third principle is about redistribution. at the moment we have such
incredible disparity twixt rich and poor. 'obscene' doesn't quite cover it. it
is mass murder, genocide.
there is no need, in my opinion, for a top down program of redistribution - any
top down ideological program is fraught. rather as more and more people opt out
of the current mass consumption economy, the co-operative, localised 'fair
share' economy will grow.
at the same time, a la the green beautiful, the global corporate ecocidal
economy will diminish and stall - the growing global economic crisis can be
seen as a whole system response to these ecological exigencies, a crisis that
may well become a collapse in the next year or two.
the financial basis of wealth nowadays is basically virtual - it is an illusion
- a conjuring trick. your wealth does not lie in what you *have* (this could
vanish in an instant); it lies what you give and share with others.
the greater the number of interconnections the more resilient the network; we
are moving from an atomic model of independence to an ecological model of
interdependence.
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