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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725775897snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <JMC.92Dec30011457@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 04:24:57 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <JMC.92Dec30011457@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
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- > 2. The unstated premise is that it makes sense to plan for the world
- > as a whole disregarding the effects of national sovereignty. When
- > national sovereignty is taken into account, we see that some countries
- > have population problems, but others don't. There is no political
- > mechanism in sight that can merge Australia and China. [The Confucians
- > lost China's chance at Australia during the Ming dynasty when they
- > isolated the country.]
-
- Indeed, the present understanding between our two countries is quite
- explicitly stated as, "It is better to get along with one's neighbours
- than distant relatives". We acknowledge that we can co-exist without
- developing significant relationships with one another.
-
- It *does* need to be taken into account what relationships exist in
- the world. If a particular country and/or its allies arrive at a view
- that nothing anyone in the US wants to do or say is relevant to them,
- the Greens can talk their heads off into eternity without making one
- iota of difference.
-
- I have adopted the local sovereignty model benefitting from its own
- ability to shop around anywhere for resources or expertise for good
- reason; global "solutions" have already been tried and consistently
- failed. The so-called Green Platform, I am sorry to say, has already
- expired, and it is well past time everyone finally discarded all this
- pretentious "First World - Third World" wank and simply acknowledged
- whichever country and its own real situation we are referring to from
- time to time.
-
- The Aboriginal people here have pursued that same local integration
- model in microcosm successfully since the last cultural shift about
- 5,000 years ago, and the Chinese Confucian system based on kinship
- informing both local and provincial administration has been in place
- for a not dissimilar period. The Chinese anthropologists are in fact
- currently hypothesising a link between the two events, BTW, suggesting
- that Taoism, Hinduism and Aboriginal Law are all related via the same
- cultural origins.
-
- The former two streams, however, became subject to external influences
- and so changed to meet such contingencies, while the latter had remained
- isolated and intact until the Europeans arrived *despite* being fully
- aware of their neighbours. I do suggest it is no mere whim that the
- Chinese later deliberately isolated themselves, or that they now seek
- to be our neighbours rather than being related in any way.
-
- The Australian Aboriginal people want their land, language and culture
- restored to them too, and to keep us interfering whites at arms length.
-
- Gil
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