142.177.81.103 at 19:35, 25 November 2003

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'''Bioregional democracy''' is part of the [[Greens]]' response to [[factionalism]] and too much competition due to [[globalization]].

They, like [[fair trade]] advocates, say there is a [[race to the bottom]] in [[ecosystem health]] and [[human health]] and that all means of [[measuring well-being]] (which are honest unlike [[GDP]]) are causing [[quality of life]] to degrade.

Accordingly, they seek to divide the world into [[ecoregion]]s and make certain types of competition between them invalid, and have [[safe trade]] between them to protect the [[natural capital]] and [[ecosystem health]] of each of them to a locally-defined standard. This they hope would reverse the race to the bottom and start a competition to make each [[ecoregion]] compete instead to attract [[individual capital]] which would apply its creativity in part to the renewal of [[natural capital]] and [[biodiversity]].

To do this would probably also require [[monetary reform]] so that each region had its own [[money]], and this too would be managed by the above [[democracy]].

Whether this fits into [[visions]] or [[best cases]] or is just one of many [[threats]] to various [[types of countries]], more or less depends on your [[faction]]. [[Blues]] probably think it's a bad idea as it interferes with what they call "[[free trade]]". [[Pinks]] would be concerned that not everyone in every region would be "equal" and that it would not be "fair". [[Reds]] would argue it was "bourgeois". In other words [[politics as usual]] takes over as soon as you try to discuss any reasonable idea like this. Maybe it's better to just make it happen by proving it works for simpler problems like the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] or a [[guild]]. Or maybe not.

See [[w:bioregional democracy]] if all this interests you. Really, it should.

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142.177.81.103 at 19:35, 25 November 2003