On these points, there is an argument to turn all foreign aid into
per-person distribution of the funds rather than channel them through
the utterly corrupted system of mutual back-scratchers, venal national
elites, home-based corporations and bogus NGOs that get most of the
benefits from the present 'phantom aid' structure.
On ecological debt reparations, there's a growing movement, including a
reparations case in the US that has some real potential, related to
apartheid collusion, which will give the Alien Tort Claims Act some
muscle, we hope. But on eco debt, in particular, there's work of
Joan-Martinez Alier in calculating the debt (a thorny problem!) and the
fantastic advocacy of Accion Ecologica, OilWatch, Jubilee South, World
Council of Churches, etc...
Carrol Cox wrote:
Carrol wrote: I think OPEN BORDERS is one of those rallying points. A
four-day week is another. Stop all Foreign Aid a third. All troops
within the 50 states another. Eliminate the Prison system. And so forth.
Keep conversation going on such topics within both local organizations
and national forums.
ehrbar wrote:
Carrol, I don't think the slogan "Stop all foreign aid" is defensible.
Since the US has historically emitted a huge amount of CO2 into the
atmosphere, the US owes the developing nations a lot of aid to
compensate them for the cost of climate change and to help them pursue a
development path based on renewable energy. Almost nobody is talking
about this, this is not part of common consciousness. If the Left
promotes the slogan "Stop all foreign aid" they co-operate with this
conspiracy of silence and put themselves in opposition to the
necessities dictated by the present climate emergency. See The
Greenhouse Development Rights Framework: The Right to Development in a
Climate Constrained World (executive summary) at
http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/GDRs_ExecSummary.pdf
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