The Buddhist Peace Fellowship comments on the lack of minority representation in the environmental movement and their own controversial attempts to increase minority representation: As we confront this disparity of effects between the haves and have-nots, we must necessarily look at the systems that have created haves and have-nots in the first place. But are we? As Naomi Klein has warned: We’ve globalized an utterly untenable economic model of hyperconsumerism. It’s now successfully spreading across the world, and it’s killing us. Worse still, as she sees it, many of the mainstream green organizations in North America have cozied up to this unfettered capitalist system instead of doing anything to resist it. “There is no enemy anymore,” she says. “More than that, [Big Green is] casting corporations as the solution, as the willing participants and part of [the] solution.” But with corporations beholden to only their shareholders, nothing and no one else, how can we reasonably expect them to participate fully in the hard work of solving environmental problems? And shouldn’t we be talking about that…a lot? buddhistpeacefellowship.org/in-defense-of-the-mandala-form-for-the-bpf-national-gathering/
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:19:42 +0000
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