Opening horizons towards eco-sustainability
On 12 August 2010 TIME headlined “The Best Laws Money Can Buy”, money can buy the best laws. The truth unfortunately is much worse, those who have money control not only laws but also information and education. Today power is no longer exercised, as in history, with evident violence but with increasingly insidious means. They make us believe we are free citizens when in reality they control and direct us from the first years of school: “through information and education it’s possible to manipulate people so much as to make an act of suicide or murder seem like something noble”. In less extreme cases, such information and education is not aimed at such serious acts but rather at keeping people in constant agony. Chronically ill people, dissatisfied with life, individualistic and obedient, even to despotic orders, are the norm in those around us, despite all this certainly not being part of human nature.
The truth is: those who have money control not only laws but also information and education.
The history of colonialism has repeated itself for the umpteenth time and we haven’t noticed simply because the actors have changed. Once the colonists were the Spanish, the English, the French who conquered territories and subjugated populations for their own profit. Today colonists no longer take the name of nations but rather of large brands that often have budgets greater than those of nations themselves.
Today colonists are called GSK, Monsanto, Bayer, Amazon, McDonald’s, JP Morgan. As happened in the past, even now they conquer territories and subjugate governments and populations in the name of their profit. We can choose to continue living under the diktat of multinationals and banks, or decide to create a new parallel world no longer subject to money and profit as the first and only value.
Dependency or self-sufficiency?
If we no longer want to be “dependent” on multinationals we must become “self-sufficient” and this is what frightens us most because nobody has taught us to be so. Being self-sufficient doesn’t mean becoming the new “Thoreaus” of the situation but rather creating communities and local economies that automatically remove power from the colonists of our era and return it to local populations.
Vivi Consapevole in Romagna
The Vivi Consapevole in Romagna project today is still perceived as a good free-press ecology magazine widely distributed in Romagna, but this is not the only intent.
The idea from which the project was born is to succeed in weaving a network of people and activities ready to put themselves on the line to create a local economy based on ecology, beauty, health, depth, slowness, love, honesty, on a new life based on the ancient wisdom of nature. Making Romagna not only an economically prosperous region but also ecologically healthy, an example for the world. This is what can restore strength and dignity to us and free us from the tyranny of multinationals. We already have all the solutions to create a healthy and happy community, we just need to put them into practice and actively support them.
Why accept living chronically ill thanks to vaccines and medicines when in most cases it’s possible to prevent and definitively cure naturally?
Why accept living in a place where water, air and soil are polluted when infinite solutions exist to reduce energy consumption and eliminate chemicals from agriculture? Why accept that all the money produced by local work goes away in taxes and in multinationals’ tax havens when we can exchange amongst ourselves, create a complementary currency, exploit time banks, local markets and purchasing groups? Why accept that our children are given mediocre education with the same methods that were applied a century ago when the world was very different? Why…?
