[pp.int.general] Towards a Pirate Policy on Environmental Issues

[Antonio Garcia]

>From an humanist perspective, I would say environmental issues arise when one prioritizes short term advantages over long term sustainability because for reasons some do not seem to grasp we live in a very competitive environment. One where, if one finds a possible short term advantage, one thinks it would be foolish not to exploit it because others will be smart enough to find out too sooner or later... and then for no particular gain at all one will have forfeited an advantage.

So, the only way to be honest about environmental issues... is to find out how we can stop needing competitivity. Until then, all arguments about environmental issues are at most dialectic skirmishing where people who have access to cleaner technologies try to widen the competitive advantage they have by trying to ban dirtier technologies the other can use to catch up if not in quality at least in quantity. Like when the west favours highly patented alternative energy sources... and targets the high pollution levels of more traditional energy sources like petroleum or coal... without offering to share their access to clean technology.

Do we favour an honest discourse on the matter, or one that gets us to keep the more advantages the better?


Antonio.
PP-ES

> From: torbjorn.wester at piratpartiet.se
> To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:14:35 +0200
> Subject: [pp.int.general] Towards a Pirate Policy on Environmental Issues
> 
> Cheers to everybody, this being my first mail to this list.
> 
> I'm interested in your opinions on what different standpoints would be
> appropriate and relevant when it comes to developing a Pirate Policy on
> environmental issues.
> 
> Right now we don't have very much to say on this topic, at least when it
> comes to the Swedish Pirate Party. Of course we are opposed to the
> inhibiting effects of patents on "green tech", but that is quite limited as
> an environmental policy.
> 
> What would be a functional Pirate perspective on environment issues? (1)
> What environmental challenges are to be primarily prioritized? (2) What
> solutions would we prefer to said challenges?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Torbjörn Wester
> Board Member, Swedish Pirate Party
> 
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