DEV VIRAHSAWMY
The rapidly ageing and dangerously sick NEOLIBERAL OUTLOOK built on globalisaion and the financialisation of the economy is at the heart of all our main problems and yet our economic and political pundits see everything in terms of tax-slashing and subsidy-enhancing solutions.
50 years ago, James Lovelock proposed the Gaia Hypothesis to help us understand what was happening to our planet but of course money-lobbies did everything to shut him up.
It’s now very late but, let’s hope not too late, to build a green sustainable system.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
• Replace fossil fuels by green renewable energy;
• Replace globalisation by localisation;
• Ensure food security – GROW WHAT YOU EAT AND EAT WHAT YOU GROW – and healthy eating habits;
• Reorganise Mauritius into some 20 self-contained and self-sufficient municipalities each offering all economic, political, administrative, social and cultural amenities;
• Encourage the use of muscular energy for intramunicipal transport and electric public transport for intermunicipal transport;
• Promote human-animal-plant harmony in all things.
HAVE A GOOD LAUGH!
I know. This is the stupid dream of a crazy nincompoop who is at the end of his tether.
BROTHERLY NAMASTE.