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so
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the
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underpinning core ideology that we are
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fed in the west is that we are
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competitive
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selfish that this is human nature you
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know that is in many ways the
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the religion of neoliberalism that's
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where it comes from you think you know
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what it is to be human but you don't
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all you know is how a human behaves in a
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power over paradigm but what if you were
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to plug that human being into a
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completely different paradigm
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for the past few hundred years
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and especially in the last four decades
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people on every continent have been
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increasingly at the mercy of a colonial
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globalized economy
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we've been imprisoned in a consumer
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society in which our needs are met by
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distant anonymous corporations
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in which external ideals of success
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are imposed upon us
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this
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competitiveness
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that uh you have to prove yourself by
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how much
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faster you can climb and push down the
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others and
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and it's been a deformation of the human
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spirit i do believe
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for
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hundreds of thousands of years we
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evolved
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for a very different type of living
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tribalized i don't mean tribalized as in
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ideological oppositionalism
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i mean tribalized as
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i live with these 150 people my survival
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is dependent on their survival my
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contentment is dependent on their
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contentment
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there's no
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brain system
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that supports competition
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there's no brain system that's all about
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aggression
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all these
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assumptions that
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this society
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ascribes to
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human nature they don't exist in our
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neurophysiology
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and there's an ache now
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for people to discover who they are
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we human beings didn't evolve
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for a hyper individualized competitive
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way of being
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for most of our time on this planet
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we lived in collaborative
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intergenerational communities
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deeply connected to the land and the
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waters that sustained us
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this is why you can now see across the
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world
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people have been pushed into this
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unnatural
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high-rise way of living
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disconnected from each other and from
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the earth
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they're now developing a natural and
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almost biological hunger
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for community
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and connection to nature
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i see that the more interests among
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young people
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about farming and moving especially
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moving outside
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of big cities
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they are very very uh
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hungry for communal bonds so i see some
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something very important is happening
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here
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and the young people in brazil are
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already
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showing that they want this um
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ecological future and local future
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locally based and deeply weaved within
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territory to exist
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and they
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came together within a movement that we
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called localization
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beyond the mainstream media
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on the ground on every continent a quiet
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revolution is emerging
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people are seeking community
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collaboration
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ways of life that nurture the natural
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world instead of destroying it
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farmers markets
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small business alliances
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transition towns
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mutual aid networks community banks
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agroecology schools
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alternative education
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permanent culture eco-villages and more
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collectively these diverse initiatives
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demonstrate a new path forward for
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humanity
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it's a path that localizes rather than
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globalizes
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connects rather than separates and shows
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us that human beings need not be the
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problem
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we can be the
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solution we are
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facing
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an emerging global civilization
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and the danger of global mono culture
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and it is
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this danger that can be countered by
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the localization movement
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it is localization that can enable the
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emergence of diversity
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identity autonomy and resilience
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so
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this is a time for localization it's
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modest it's simple
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almost beguilingly simple
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but it's also complex
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it also means that we have to
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shape-shift
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it also means we have to be different
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in local economies
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people can see their impact on others
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and on nature
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this is a human scale where the
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structures create transparency and
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accountability and bring out the best in
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people
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this for me is the strongest argument
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for localization
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when people work locally
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they look after what they're working
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with
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they have a longer horizon
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they're not thinking to the next
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shareholder meeting
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to the next quarterly
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profits
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review they're thinking what would this
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be like for my children and
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grandchildren
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that kind of long-term vision
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is profoundly ecological
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people
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want
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to
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experience their responsibility
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and that means that you carry yourself
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with pride and dignity because you
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matter
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what makes a human being happy
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i don't want to trivialize that question
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but i would say that it is
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multi-dimensional relationships
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relationships to each other to other
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people
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to non-human beings to a place
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you
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create together
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you
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meet
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physical needs for each other
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you are
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embedded
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and you could say of
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a place not just a separate self
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but you are part of a circle
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of a circle of circles of circles of
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circles of relationships
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therefore you know who you are therefore
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you have a sense of belonging
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so what mahatma gandhi called swadeshi
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meaning economics of the place and we
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celebrate the diversity of cultures and
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diversity of religions and diversity of
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languages but we keep ourselves rooted
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in the place where we live
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when it comes to food when it comes to
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the way that we organize power when it
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comes to the way we organize health and
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even i would say issues as
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potentially complex as justice we need
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to localize where possible
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thanks to globalization the food we eat
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travels thousands of miles
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shrimp from scotland is shipped 6 000
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miles to thailand just to be peeled then
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shipped back to be sold in the uk
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meanwhile
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countries routinely import and export
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huge quantities of the same product
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in 2020
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germany was the world's second largest
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importer of milk
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and also the world's second largest
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exporter of milk
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that same year the us imported 3.5
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billion dollars worth of beef
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and exported 3.75
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billion dollars worth
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many countries engage in this kind of
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redundant trade
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this is insanity in an era of climate
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chaos but global trade rules actually
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encourage it
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all the international money team and air
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transportation the emissions from this
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are not accounted by any country
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just think of all those vessels with all
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kinds of commodities from china to
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everywhere
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from mining with soy with oil with
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liquefied gas
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those emissions are nobody's emission
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because one of the key assumptions of
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the climate policy is that you cannot
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harm trade
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the global market pressures towards vast
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chemical intensive
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monoculture-based
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farming
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these monocultures actually produce less
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food while eliminating biodiversity and
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destroying small farmers
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local markets on the other hand
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require a variety of different products
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and so they unleash the productive and
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truly regenerative power of small-scale
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diversified farming
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permaculture has contributed to that
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acknowledgement and importance
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of
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these
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smaller localized economies for
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radically reducing ecological footprint
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it's desperately important that we take
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control
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in our communities of our food to
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eat
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food grown locally as much as possible
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saving seeds learning from our nature
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learning from farmers
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we can grow enough food to feed all of
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india twice over
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by conserving biodiversity regenerating
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the soil regenerating the water and
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healing the broken climate cycle
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agriculture uses half of all habitable
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land
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so a shift from global monocultures to
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localized diversified food systems
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would literally transform the face of
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the earth
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as people recognize the multiple
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benefits of local food economies
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community initiatives are springing up
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across the world
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we have over
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1500 urban gardens and farms now all
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across the city of detroit we are going
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to build a local ecosystem of food
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entrepreneurs and we are about to build
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the most delicious love food economy on
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the planet
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number of young people from the city
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want to come back to the farm is
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increase they have strong intention that
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they want to do organic farming
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now we do a lot of training mainly
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people from the city come and many most
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of them ready to quit their job many of
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them looking for land many of them
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bought the land already
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we have a madness in this world
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where
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food that is grown around our cities
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is largely exported to other areas
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either within the country or even
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outside the country
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and um
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wouldn't it be so much better
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if
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the local farmers had the opportunity to
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work with the local communities to bring
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their food into the city as was
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traditionally done
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bristol was once fed by
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peri-urban horticulture projects
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like suburban market gardens basically
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since 85 the amount of land given to
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this kind of agricultural production
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suburb and horticulture has declined by
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almost 30 percent in this country it's
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really difficult for
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farmers especially kind of new entrance
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to farming to get access to land so
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bristol food producers is running a
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scheme of land matching where it tries
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to get people who want to have access to
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land to apply through bristol food
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producers and then it tries to match
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people with available land we take
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pleasure in our day's work here and
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enjoy turning out plate food and
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watching people enjoy it knowing that we
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know patrick that's growing the mushroom
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that's on that plate
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to use
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the products in the shop and to sell
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them but also to celebrate the bristol
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food movement which is
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amazing
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my name is nelson mujinga
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i'm a small older farmer in the shasher
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block of farms
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we are demonstrating and showcasing many
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of the practices that will relate to
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our local
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our processes of producing food and this
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at the same time
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managing our environment
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we believe
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it is a movement that is connecting
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different people in many different
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communities
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they cannot survive in isolation they
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would like to connect for them to be
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able to participate meaningfully and
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effectively in the politics about food
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systems
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[Music]
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me
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[Music]
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we are a group of friends in budapest
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involving different activities dealing
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with sustainability and more social
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justice we met and decided to launch an
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ambitious project for better well-being
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called cargonomia we would like to
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distribute healthy local food in
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budapest with our self-manufactured
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cargo bikes
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we bring all that food and also eggs
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beers to cargonomia in the city center
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of budapest from there we distribute it
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to people in budapest with our cargo
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bikes made in teclanomia
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there's this widespread belief that we
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need big farms and ever more technology
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to feed the world
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actually exactly the opposite is true we
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need small-scale diversified farms
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everywhere
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supporting this turnaround
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is an essential step in transforming the
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entire economic system
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and is something that we can all
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contribute to
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right now wherever we are
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local food economies are essential for
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restoring our health and the health of
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the planet as a whole
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but to build those kinds of economies we
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must recapture our rights from global
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corporations beyond this uh
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community efforts a localization must
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advocate for structural changes in the
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social and production relations between
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farmers traders and landlords we hope to
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contribute in the building and
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strengthening
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of a global movement that will challenge
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the monopoly control of dnc's over food
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and agriculture it starts with simple
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questions actually of where does my food
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come from where does my water come from
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who controls these systems how are
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decisions made around these
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and it starts to connect to larger
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social movements who are actually trying
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today to defend our territories to
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defend the water resources to defend uh
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uh control over our own knowledge
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systems
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foreign
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and we need policy reforms that supports
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localization and agroecology and
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community supported agriculture the need
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to have strong
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uh mass movements of farmers and small
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food producers of workers and consumers
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and all their advocates so
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we need to support and strengthen such a
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strong people's movement
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how is it that we have allowed control
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of our food systems and our entire
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economy to be put into the hands of
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giant global institutions
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so from the time of colonization there
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was historical structuring or
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re-orientation of domestic agriculture
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and food production towards sources of
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cheap raw materials for the industrial
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needs of the colonizers
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so it continued with the neoliberal
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globalization of the past four decades
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and they've used um instruments like wto
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bilateral agreements ftas as well as
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restructuring required by the
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international financial institutions
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such as world bank and imf
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since the 1980s
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governments worldwide have been signing
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on to trade treaties that give
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multinational banks and corporations
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more and more freedom and power
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these treaties now even allow
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corporations to sue governments for any
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social or environmental protections that
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might threaten their profits
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this makes a mockery of democracy
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you know what did globalization do
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it tore down all the rules
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that allowed
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justice in society democracy in society
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equality in society tore it all down and
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made it all possible to accumulate so
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you get the tech billionaires emerging
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you get the black rocks and the
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vanguards this year blackrock is 9.5
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trillion
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9.5 trillion
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in a decade
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they own the media and they of course
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own the whole financial infrastructure
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and and so basically almost any aspect
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of our life today is dominated by these
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global corporations and what's so
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terrifying about it is that
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they
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are structured legally
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with one mission above all which is to
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increase shareholder profit shareholder
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value as fast as possible
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they want to reinforce the current
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unsustainable global system with the new
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technology
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now as we move forward with this
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localizing movement we have to be very
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very careful with this world new
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technology
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because now multinational corporations
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are taking over our food system with
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that
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can you imagine a future where
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multinational company servers on the
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other side of the world
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automatically manage the robots
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blowing the farming
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the world economic forum has set the
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goal
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of digitalizing the whole world
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in fact a yale has already collected 24
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million
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hectares
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of digital data from all over the world
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saudi aramco
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where energy is opportunity
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governments on both left and right are
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rolling out the red carpet for these
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corporate giants
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they're freeing them from regulation
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they're freeing them from paying taxes
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and they're subsidizing the expansion of
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globalizing infrastructure
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at the same time
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citizens small businesses and even
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national industries are squeezed for
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taxes and burdened by ever more red tape
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and bureaucracy
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that's why products from the other side
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of the world generally cost less than
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local products
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it's why the gap between rich and poor
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is so extreme
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it's a completely unfair economic
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playing field
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we have a system that actively
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undermines the social network
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and destroys communities because it
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throws people out of jobs without any
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thought to the impact
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of what that will have on the local
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community
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when a walmart can come in and
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completely
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obliterate small local businesses
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that is huge impact on people's
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connection to each other and therefore
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on their health
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one of the many reasons that the
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technological
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expansion in the west and now all over
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the world
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over the last
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few centuries is so toxic is that it has
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been intimately linked with the
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destruction of community and this is a
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breeding ground for all kinds of
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insecurities
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according to facebook's own research
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reported by the wall street journal
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their platforms make body image issues
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so if you look at the statistics and the
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number of people that are lonely they've
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gone way up in the last 34 years
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the
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real epidemic of mental health
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conditions amongst the youth increased
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youth suicide depression anxiety
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all of which actually reflect
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the the consequences of a system
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that denies children's developmental
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needs and fails to provide children or
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adults with a healthy connected
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environment
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ultimately these corporations only get
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their power by having to push down the
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actual deep instinct in every human
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being every human infant that's born to
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love to be connected to be part of
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community to be part of life they have
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to actively stop that from growing but
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people themselves want nothing more than
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to be part of community part of life to
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feel desired within their community to
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feel that they're making a meaningful
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difference to others around them
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but will it lead to wage rises
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we've assumed so before
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the majority of people are getting
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poorer
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governments are getting poorer
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and even ceos are running faster and
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faster in fear of losing their jobs in a
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merger
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so why is anyone still going along with
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this globalizing madness
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the system has become so vast so global
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that it's almost impossible to see its
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contours
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and no one has been charged with
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stepping back to look at the big picture
00:29:08
instead economic pressures have been
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demanding ever more specialization an
00:29:15
ever more narrow perspective
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so this means that the problem is not so
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much about evil greedy people in charge
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it's much more about a lack of awareness
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about ignorance
00:29:30
from the grassroots to the very pinnacle
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of power
00:29:34
this is actually quite good in many ways
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because
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the antidote to ignorance
00:29:40
isn't complicated
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it's about raising awareness
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the globalized economic system that
00:29:51
dominates our world is like the pied
00:29:54
piper who led the children of hamline to
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their doom
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with its enchanting glamour of media
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consumerism and big business
00:30:03
globalization has led us to so many
00:30:06
crises like climate change
00:30:08
ecological disasters widening gap
00:30:11
between the rich and the poor
00:30:13
and increasing social violence and
00:30:15
illnesses of all kinds what gives us
00:30:18
hope is the millions of deep thinkers
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and their initiatives that promote
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localization as a major systemic
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solution that we need to arrest our
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civilizations
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free fall to disaster when we think
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local and we consume local
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it makes for a healthier planet because
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the the ripple effect it causes um and
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and the um this community spaces that it
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creates
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is just beautiful i'm trying to shift
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away from contributing to the fossil
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fuel economy in any way possible
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it makes so much sense because the only
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people making money in the whole economy
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seem to be the people who are extracting
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from
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the system millions of local initiatives
00:31:03
already exist in india for local
00:31:06
agriculture innumerable local crafts
00:31:09
creating local economies and much more
00:31:12
93 percent of our total workforce of
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india is from the unorganized sector
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which includes small and localized
00:31:20
businesses
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gandhiji said
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india needs production by the masses not
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mass production
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and that we need grams barrage
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which really means respect for
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localization
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india is a country that still has over
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20 000 varieties of rice
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over thousand kinds of hand looms
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over 120 major living languages and we
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have diversity of all kinds
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we still need to follow the wisdom of
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gandhiji
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[Music]
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sabemos
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america
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foreign
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worried customers have been snapping up
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everything in sight store shelves
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nationwide or dwindling or totally empty
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we needed a pandemic to show us how
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resources need to actually flow and how
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localized action
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can create amazing local responses based
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on a new
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relatedness in an emergency we're kind
00:33:53
of hardwired to help each other and
00:33:56
small-scale approaches are a very
00:33:58
effective way to build relationships of
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trust and meaning while serving needs
00:34:05
so one of the
00:34:07
really dramatic consequences of the
00:34:10
coronavirus pandemic
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is the rise all over the world
00:34:15
of
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community-based mutual support groups
00:34:19
some of them are amazing at the same
00:34:21
time there's a growth
00:34:23
in response to the
00:34:25
longer term crisis of
00:34:28
neoliberal capitalism which has been
00:34:30
devastating for 40 years
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there's a growth of
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worker-owned enterprises
00:34:38
collectives
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community-based services
00:34:43
spreading all over one of the things
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that happens in
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the midst of large-scale shocks and
00:34:49
crises is that we realize very quickly
00:34:52
how vulnerable
00:34:54
our globalized supply chains are
00:34:57
and in the rocky world of climate chaos
00:35:00
we're seeing many more examples of this
00:35:03
localization in this context is survival
00:35:07
we will be facing more shocks more novel
00:35:10
viruses
00:35:11
more cataclysmic storms
00:35:13
our communities must prepare
00:35:16
by becoming more self-sufficient more
00:35:18
able to provide for our basic food
00:35:21
energy and medical needs
00:35:23
self-sufficient is not the same as
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isolated or parochial or insular i'm an
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internationalist
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but more sturdy more ready and more
00:35:33
resilient communities is what we need
00:35:35
for when the next shock comes
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in the modern world
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we have been made to believe that
00:35:47
globalizing economic development is
00:35:50
inevitable
00:35:51
cookie cutter houses bigger highways
00:35:55
homogenized main streets
00:35:57
concrete and high rise and corporate
00:36:00
logos on every corner
00:36:02
we have called it progress and treated
00:36:05
it as some kind of evolutionary force
00:36:07
beyond our control
00:36:09
but all around the world communities are
00:36:12
exploring a diversity of place-based
00:36:15
alternatives we have to rebuild our
00:36:17
local economies our local societies our
00:36:20
local politics and there's incredible
00:36:22
millions of movements around the world
00:36:24
which are actually saying no we are the
00:36:26
power we claim the power where we are
00:36:28
we're not going to give it to
00:36:28
politicians or corporations
00:36:31
a community decides to manage shared
00:36:33
wealth in ways that are participatory
00:36:35
fair and peer governed and this happens
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outside of markets outside of the state
00:36:40
it's people driven we see it in
00:36:42
cooperatives and local currencies and
00:36:44
time banking we can see it in community
00:36:47
forest and community supported industry
00:36:49
the commons and localization are not
00:36:51
faded to be small or uninfluential
00:36:54
because they're small the strategy is to
00:36:57
emulate and federate to federate
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horizontally so we can coordinate and
00:37:03
trade knowledge and grow a bigger
00:37:05
footprint while keeping the appropriate
00:37:07
scale
00:37:08
and there is a master plan for
00:37:09
developing the area and we've looked at
00:37:11
it and thought well it's exactly as a
00:37:13
master plan would be in the late 20th
00:37:16
earlier 21st century
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and
00:37:19
we as a community have come together and
00:37:20
thought we can do better than this so
00:37:22
what we're looking at is how we can
00:37:24
co-design a neighborhood that's going to
00:37:26
be
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answer the questions of growing
00:37:28
inequality climate change
00:37:31
and poor design and fragmented
00:37:33
communities
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we like to think of the transition
00:37:35
movement as being a movement of
00:37:37
communities who are reimagining and
00:37:39
rebuilding the world and they do so with
00:37:41
a particular focus
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on localization
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share is an empty shop that has been
00:37:51
converted into a library of things
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i am one of eight
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apprentices
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that have created share a library of
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things so the share shop is basically a
00:38:02
physical hub for people to lend items to
00:38:05
each other similar to a library you can
00:38:08
borrow stuff but it's not just books but
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also yeah why items
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tools leisure holiday equipment all of
00:38:16
that kind of thing reduces the amount of
00:38:19
stuff that we need to have ourselves you
00:38:22
can come
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to the shop repair your bike if it's got
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a puncture
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you know if you've got something else to
00:38:28
fix just to come down there's such a
00:38:31
huge range of possibilities of what this
00:38:34
shop could be
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when we treat economies and communities
00:38:42
as local as opposed to global we have a
00:38:45
chance to exercise
00:38:46
real power over the way our lives are
00:38:48
run this is going to require great
00:38:50
regulation of many of these centralized
00:38:53
uh institutions
00:38:55
the eg in the corporate world
00:38:58
in government let's create a fair
00:39:00
playing field let's stop giving
00:39:02
subsidies to big business let's get the
00:39:04
tax code fair so that local economies
00:39:07
have a fair chance to thrive let's stop
00:39:09
using the farm bill to give 90 of our
00:39:12
farm subsidies to the biggest farms you
00:39:14
know if we go down the list there are so
00:39:16
many ways in which policy
00:39:19
is working in favor of the big guys and
00:39:21
if we level that playing field and if we
00:39:23
recognize the various benefits that
00:39:26
local businesses bring i think we'll get
00:39:27
very different outcomes
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a little bit of a different voice of
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hope
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uh the voice from
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what probably most people think is an
00:40:26
unlikely quarter to have voices of hope
00:40:28
and that's the business world so when we
00:40:31
live and work in the same community we
00:40:33
see every day the people that are
00:40:35
affected by our decisions whether
00:40:37
they're our employees or our neighbors
00:40:39
our customers our suppliers our our
00:40:42
environment and we're more likely to
00:40:44
make decisions from the heart as well as
00:40:46
from the head
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imagine if a grassroots movement of
00:40:49
local people decided that we could make
00:40:53
and grow and invest in the goods and the
00:40:55
services that our communities need
00:40:58
that jobs and wealth are better in the
00:40:59
hands of the many
00:41:01
rather than the few
00:41:03
that is manufacturers
00:41:04
family farmers independent retailers as
00:41:07
energy providers or as community bankers
00:41:09
that we could all just decide
00:41:11
that it was all right to care for each
00:41:13
other
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here at bali the business alliance for
00:41:17
local living economies
00:41:18
we know that real prosperity is local by
00:41:22
its very nature
00:41:23
from seattle to cincinnati asheville to
00:41:26
minneapolis new orleans to vancouver bc
00:41:29
bali is celebrating and recognizing
00:41:32
supporting and connecting the leaders of
00:41:35
a new economy most communities in the
00:41:37
united states with the highest density
00:41:40
of locally owned business
00:41:42
there is the highest per capita
00:41:44
job growth rate that in those
00:41:46
communities with the highest number of
00:41:49
locally owned businesses
00:41:51
there is the highest per capita income
00:41:54
growth rate in other words the best way
00:41:57
of reducing poverty increasing equality
00:42:01
is to go local
00:42:03
we also know that local businesses are
00:42:06
extremely profitable
00:42:08
this is from canada and what it shows is
00:42:12
the most profitable businesses have 10
00:42:15
to 20 employees
00:42:17
the least profitable businesses are
00:42:19
those that are traded on the toronto
00:42:22
stock exchange
00:42:23
how can we get the 99
00:42:26
of us
00:42:27
to start putting money
00:42:29
into great local businesses because if
00:42:33
we do
00:42:34
we unleash
00:42:36
not only
00:42:37
great local economies but we take the
00:42:40
fuel
00:42:42
out of the monsters of global capital
00:42:45
in nova scotia there are communities
00:42:47
that are now allowed to create local
00:42:51
pension funds and there are maybe i
00:42:54
don't know 50 60 of these pension funds
00:42:57
in new brunswick they just implemented a
00:43:01
50
00:43:02
tax credit every dollar
00:43:05
that you put
00:43:07
into a local business above a thousand
00:43:09
dollars generates 50 cents of reduction
00:43:13
in your taxes in provincial in
00:43:16
provincial tax obligations these are
00:43:19
serious serious reforms
00:43:23
localization addresses people's mounting
00:43:26
concerns with the cost of living with
00:43:29
their financial security
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simultaneously
00:43:34
it reduces emissions
00:43:37
and other environmental destruction
00:43:40
it's a vision that bridges social and
00:43:43
environmental issues
00:43:45
the rural and urban divide
00:43:48
and the political left and right
00:43:52
it's a unique opportunity
00:43:54
to to build a broad-based movement that
00:43:58
could bring about fundamental systemic
00:44:01
change
00:44:03
and i think we're seeing that a lot of
00:44:05
pushback a lot of people
00:44:06
pushing more to the right in their
00:44:08
politics right around the world is this
00:44:09
cry out for more empowerment at a local
00:44:11
level they're sick of these decisions
00:44:13
being made by corporations that are
00:44:15
thousands of kilometers away from their
00:44:17
own region where they understand the
00:44:19
nuance and what's required in their
00:44:21
particular community
00:44:22
so the more that we can localize and
00:44:24
give people back that power at that
00:44:25
local level i think we're going to see
00:44:28
huge changes not only environmentally
00:44:29
but also to the social fabric of what
00:44:31
we're creating
00:44:37
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only the tiniest fraction of the global
00:44:45
population is actively involved in
00:44:47
promoting the continued globalization of
00:44:50
the economy
00:44:52
by contrast those working for a
00:44:55
fundamentally different future can be
00:44:57
numbered in the hundreds of millions
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m
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[Music]
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this is a vital time to do
00:45:53
different kinds of activisms different
00:45:55
kinds of work
00:45:58
so power needs to change our notions of
00:46:00
power need to change if power is always
00:46:03
at a distance then we will frame
00:46:05
economics
00:46:06
and the economy as
00:46:10
food coming from far away
00:46:12
and we will valorize refine ordain and
00:46:17
celebrate a system
00:46:18
that
00:46:19
denies us the immediacy of our
00:46:22
surroundings
00:46:26
so do you see that the mission of this
00:46:28
movement is bigger than ever before
00:46:32
let's keep moving for localizing the
00:46:34
whole world
00:46:36
so that one day we can brag to our
00:46:38
children or grandchildren
00:46:41
that
00:46:42
we did not give up the critical moment
00:46:45
to protect the future
00:46:47
in a planet
00:46:49
and in brazil we say decolonizing our
00:46:52
imagination stop thinking that
00:46:54
industrialization is the only way to go
00:46:56
and technology is the only way to go
00:46:58
there are other ways of living that it's
00:47:00
going to make us if maybe even more
00:47:01
happy we have to
00:47:03
take a stand for what we are recognizing
00:47:07
as
00:47:07
important and essential to our full
00:47:10
human beingness
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move people away from
00:47:20
this idea that
00:47:22
we're in a kind of darwinian struggle
00:47:24
one against the other
00:47:26
into the notion that we live in
00:47:28
communities and we must help each other
00:47:30
in communities
00:47:35
i'm not saying let's smash down cities
00:47:37
and throw our iphones out the window
00:47:38
let's keep them but there's not
00:47:40
prioritize the continual commodification
00:47:42
and the continual advancement of
00:47:44
consumer goods as the dominant idea for
00:47:48
our life
00:47:49
[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
00:48:12
[Music]
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00:48:29
the real change
00:48:31
does not come from the top
00:48:34
real change does not come from the
00:48:36
center
00:48:37
mahatma gandhi did not work from the
00:48:40
house of parliament or president's house
00:48:44
martin luther king did not come from the
00:48:47
white house we have to focus on building
00:48:50
grassroots movement stronger and
00:48:52
stronger and stronger and that is the
00:48:54
future for the local economy and human
00:48:56
scale paradigm
00:49:01
economic localization aligns with
00:49:04
fundamental principles of life
00:49:08
it protects and restores biodiversity
00:49:12
and it answers our deep innate human
00:49:16
need
00:49:17
for connection
00:49:19
it's an unstoppable force
00:49:23
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so
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you
