Almost everyone seems intent on shutting down the conversation that the Leap Manifesto wants to open up.
This is at odds with the claim that a ''liberal'' society prizes democratic debate. Lengthy and intensive debate will provide the only real opportunity to craft innovative solutions to climate change. We should embrace the deliberative opportunity that Leap provides.
After all, by reforming economic practices, Leap anticipates saving both the planet and capitalism. With their anger and denial, however, many respondents treat it as if it were a new Communist Manifesto. And maybe it should be. The problems now are as great as then, as is the resistance to appropriate action.
To govern today is still to walk that line between legitimacy and accumulation. For Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley, that line is a tightrope -- promise political legitimacy by addressing climate change but deliver economic accumulation by building a pipeline to tidewater.
On a crowded planet, the success of neoliberalism increasingly undermines its own foundations -- climate change and crashing biodiversity, global inequality and joblessness, endless proxy wars in the Middle East. Financial wealth on Wall Street is indifferent to jobs in the Rust Belt. Anxiety is the global disease of the 2010s.
In today's world, success will come to the society and economy that can embrace a critical ''dissensus'' about the future and not just reinforce a tired consensus inherited from the past. That dissensus means talking about an economy, and a democracy, and a discourse very different from the ones we have inherited.
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NOTLEY,Rachel -
"The government of Alberta repudiates the sections of that document that address energy infrastructure," "These ideas will never form any part of policy. They are naive. They are ill-informed. They are tone deaf." SRC=4
IVISON,John - QP 04-10
social justice ... utopia ....mumbo jumbo .... argentina/venezuala ... something something
] promises, promises, summary of campaign promise by the federal parties
NDP - ] balance budget, ] $15 per day daycare, ] $15 per hour min. wage
LIB - ] deficit spend (10B) on infrastrucure,
PC - ] balance budget, ]
] COMMENT - In the world you live in, which one (1) of these points seemed even halfway reasonable? I'd stick to writing lists to Santa.
- x] COMMENT-REPLY - IMO, point #1 - a rapid shift to renewable energy, complete phaseout of fossil fuels would seem to be more than "halfway reasonable".
Given that would depend a lot on ones definition of "rapid" and "complete".
- + The thing is ... if this whole "climate change" thing turns out to be legit, we are going to be kicking ourselves in the ass that we didn't do "everything" that we could possibly do to prevent/prolong it, when we had the chance, because we d
] COMMENT hogan
“It’s a document that I don’t embrace personally. There are elements in the document that make sense and there are elements that make no sense for British Columbia. So we won’t proceed under any kind of manifesto in the next 12 months under my leadership.”