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• RESTORE OUR ECOLOGICAL BIODIVERSITY

• REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE
• REDISTRIBUTE GLOBAL WEALTH

Maxim: Economies measure our interactions with people and the

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Arrow: Aim for trans-local and inter-global reciprocity for a
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As people of the ocean, forests, mountains and plains, people in
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cities, farms and rural spaces, we have long engaged in trade and
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supply chains.  That is a reciprocity that we must restore because it
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belongs to us, not investment cabals. Militarized economies that
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count bombs before trees, and values the shroud of industry before
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fresh air and clean water have done their damage relegating some
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families to pick through the waste of our consumption while
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others flounder in luxury, unwilling to hear the wails of extinction,
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983 To some degree, the evolution of our species has been bound and
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“us” and “them” and “we” and “none.” As a specie we dotted the
planet in social constructs across all environments as if testing the
limits of who we are and how we self-identify. We are a mountain
people, an ocean people, an island people, a desert people, a
warrior people, a hungry or thirsty people, we are a people that are
chased away, and we are a people that build walls. It would not be
wrong to say that most of our existence on this planet has been as
nomadic peoples and that our commitment to spaces and locales
are based upon historicisms that may be little more than
geographical bubbles.

Maxim: Survival of the fittest is a lie.

Arrow:   Our planet thrives with mutual aid, and as we see again
and again, being the strongest never guarantees our survival; rather,
the inverse is true, as power and greed has hastened collapse and
extinction.

Civilization as we have come to understand it, was built the

moment we began to understand the benefits of our division of
labor and our understanding of exchange, markets, and supply
chains. We gave it those us-and-them names, and also numbers
that signified “many” and “none.” Now those numbers, define the
Anthropocene, numbers like 7 and 8 billion, which some futurists
predict may one day become none if this planet should soon
become an uninhabitable wasteland.

Our totemic identifiers may have become little more than

placeholders establishing imagined legitimacy of a fictionalized
history suggesting that to be civilized means to have been found or
discovered. The powerful have attained recognition by subscribing
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to an economic belief emphasizing that “survival of the fittest”
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However, it is Nature that continues to prove the inverse to be
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true: that mutual aid and inter-dependence is the path to survival.
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Our ecological biodiversity is the principle truth, not the power
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wielded by privatization and militarization. Our population, the 7
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soon 8 billion, that is not the number of extinction, those are the 7
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and 8 billion pairs of hands that will restore our ecological
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mer ts> Whether islands in oceans, or mountain villages, or gated in cities

ate or affluent suburbs or enclosed in shantytowns and ghettos, we
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h- Ours is a story of supply chains. We divide our labor, we engage in
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631 Whether we walk or sail or fly whether we journey or aimlessly

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markets of exchange reject the imposed partitions of states and

islands and instead recognize oceans, mountains and deserts as
merely the spectacle between markets, the interstitial space that
would eventually define the breeding ground for military
campaigns and conquest and the wastelands of nuclear testing or
dumping. We are all migrants living within and between markets of
exchange.

Some may self identify as puritans, yet they trade as cannibals, as

violent traders that cannibalize markets. Their economy is
predatory and fierce. In the history of the world, there is no greater
example of a cannibalistic system than the waning days of
neoliberalism when Wall Street spectacularly imploded our
financial system as investment markets consumed their own debt,
hungered for credit default swaps, and feasted on derivatives and
debt securities.

As we have imposed the capitalist moniker atop every tower and

monument, will this system remain as if the conclusion of our
human development has only evolved to reach this place?

No.

How can we approach human reciprocity and exchange when the

stratifications of trade and commerce divide us?  When
assumptions over economic and ecological biodiversity continue to
privilege a discourse that governs the flow of trade towards a
center of power that manipulates what is political, sovereign and
legal, the production or truth, the manufacturing of consent
punishes difference and deviancy with tactics of exclusion,
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w.fa er.c We cannot consent to climate
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We cannot enforce Sustainable Development as another top-down
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process where international organizations try to exploit our consent.
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631 This is the time for Peoples of the World to mobilize against a
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We support sound climate goals and respect the science, but not at
the expense of alienating us from humble traditional livelihoods.

We are trans-local and inter-global, and require an economy that is

just, fair and equitable.

Maxim: GDP is not healthy for people and planet!

Arrow: Changes to National Accounts must include a robust
revision of our Wellbeing and Ecological Biodiversity.

The United Nations, has recently announced a draft proposal to

replace GDP with a System of Environmental-Economic
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consider-ground-breaking-change-economic-reporting-
includes-natural-capital> and will include ecosystem services
into the national accounting system.

We have nearly 50 years of evidence that our national accounting

system has been grossly unjust, enforcing immense disparities
between the so-called advanced economies and the rest of the
world.

How our countries account for economic growth has put our
environments at risk. The aggregates for GDP, or our Gross
Domestic Product, are built upon the eroding pillars of
Production, Consumption, Distribution and Exchange of Goods
and Services, with no accounting of our Wellbeing or Ecological
Biodiversity.

With this new United Nations environmental accounting system,

there is a tremendous opportunity for developing countries,
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indigenous peoples, and interfaith groups to mandate Wellbeing
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and sound ecological priorities, that could set a new just, fair, and
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equitable path forward in how we measure our interactions with
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ceb om Maxim: The logic of Disaster Capitalism has shackled Carbon

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When the pillars for measuring economic growth were built
between the World Wars they were designed to measure industrial
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outputs, labor, land and resources, and trade in international
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markets; interactions that would give value to our national
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monetary system. When it was standardized by the United
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Nations in the 1950s, GDP was adopted to provide all the newly
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formed countries with an economic roadmap that would help
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navigate their way into the international system.
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Upon its adoption, it was not intended to be a neocolonial or anti-

communist tool, as different countries and economic systems used
national accounting in ways that privileged their own social and
economic strengths. It was simply a guideline to measure our
industrial economic interactions.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, GDP was revised
to reinforce the neoliberal privatization and capitalization tools
that entwined transnational corporations with freemarket
governments, giving investment regimes tremendous economic
advantages over small economies.

The objectives of that 1993 national accounting revision became a

system that benefited the priorities of privatization and
capitalization at a time when the unipolar, neoliberal system was
well positioned to take advantage of desperate economic
conditions resulting from the Soviet collapse. Today, climate
change is no different: Disaster capitalism is a vulture preying on
Vulnerability, Fragilty and Conflict.

Despite attempts to include environmental degradation and

resource depletion, and household work into our national
accounting system, in the 2008 revision, national accounting was
again revised, this time to include military systems and Research
and Development, further enhancing the priorities of militarized
and advanced economies, while ignoring global health and our
ecological biodiversity. Despite the fact that in that very same year,
the Wall Street financial collapse proved that the neoliberal system
was not only grossly unfair, and unjust, but also systemically
deficient, privileging the corporate 1%.
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Maxim: A top-down consent process in not consent!
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Arrow: We must invoke free prior and informed consent, and
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develop our our own methodologies!
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Maxim: Ecological Data is a Peoples’ Commons and is not for the
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management by privatized and militarized conservation regimes.
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Arrow:   Invoke new accounting methodologies valuing our
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interactions with peoples and the restoration of our environments.
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Eart Maxim: A Peoples’ Campaign is inter-global.

h- Arrow: We must aim for trans-local exchange. Reciprocity in the 21st
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century must not contain or obstruct people-to-people
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development of our ecological engagement. We all share in our
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ecological biodiversity.

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What is ecological works.  That is the fundamental by which we should be
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We can no longer afford to talk about our economy as something

divorced from ecology. We need to be clear that in the case of our
planet, our ecology works. Millions of years of evolution has
created an ecosystem of mutual interactions, and for thousands of
those years– maybe tens of thousands– humans have developed a
notion of economy: of trade, infrastructure and supply chains.

It is simple enough to trace the evolution of law and economic

principles and we can readily pinpoint the moments in history
when industry-friendly governments promoted their laws above
the laws of nature. As we look for solutions to fix our existential
crises, why do we turn to outdated economic models that created
these crises to begin with?

Throughout industrialization, militarized economies continues to

enslave, displace, rob, contaminate, contain, obstruct and
exterminate cultures and environments. An economy must
EQUALIZE and REPAIR that wrong.

Revising national accounts can promote a new system that brings our
economy and ecology into harmony.

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