"What we’ve come to realize is that
there are two competing globalizations. One of the globalization of corporate
power. The other is a globalization of people power. And they are diametrically
opposed to one another. In competition. So this is not about building isolated
economies. We still need trade but at the margin, not as the foundation of our
economy and certainly not the foundation of our food system.
But a whole planetary system of local
living economies that are connected to each other trading at the margins but
most importantly sharing their ideas, sharing their technology freely so that
the whole of the economy, the whole of the specie and of global society can
evolve with the speed that is necessary if we’re going to create a future in
which we bring ourselves into balance with our biosphere. Creating a world in
which the needs of everyone are met. At the same time do this within a
framework of democracy and real citizen sovereignty and local control."
Link: Interview with David Korten, economist and author of Agenda for a New Economy.
