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12 April 2005
Deirdre Kent hits the nail on the head when she says "we are trapped in an
economic system that is consuming our planet host." The whole "grow or die"
paradigm serves to enrich 10% of the population, at a rising cost to the
rest of us, and to our future.
Meanwhile, as we wait for the final poisonous end of the world, we have
child poverty, hospital waiting lists, traffic congestion, pylons, overwork,
stress diseases and increasing slavery to remorseless, compound interest
bearing debt. You can recycle your trash, pack food parcels for the needy,
plant trees, march against Transpower, work for World Peace or any of the
other laudable activities that people of good faith do every day, and it
won't make any difference until we escape the usurious monetary system that
lies at the root of all these problems.
Ms. Kent talks of local action to create benign money systems. Little old
New Zealand is local enough for me. We can signal a desire for change to the
financial system here, by voting for the only political party with monetary
justice as its core policy: Democrats for social credit. The Democrats are
not so much a political party as an uprising of the soul.
Let's show the world how to save the planet while we still have the chance.
Katherine Ransom
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