What are the critical decisions for a sustainable economy and life? After EED and Bread for the World end 2008, together with the Bund, the study have published "Sustainable Germany" begins with the World Social Forum of the exchange with the partners of the relief agencies about whether we reach common ideas about how we live in the future and work, produce and consume, trade and energy producers need to further generations the future is not to be fitted. The partners were the aid agencies, they came all together, form their own little world social forum. On the evening of 31.1. in the Lutheran Church of Belém course taken primarily from people in Central and South America, Africa and Germany, more than 100 people from grassroots movements, NGOs, churches and science.
" Energy has to be more expensive, otherwise there are no incentives for change for the reduction of consumption "suggests Reinhard Benhöfer ago by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. Only then could the efforts to switch to solar sources, are intensified. That was said not only for Germany but would apply to all the discussants have not noticed you. In any case, it is clear that we will see on this central aspect of a sustainable energy supply restraint. Another theme with explosive force is not included: How much economic growth that drives the consumption of resources in the amount will still be possible? If the Peak already?
Dr. Walter Marschner of the University of Grande Dourados recalled that 80% of people behave as homo sapiens sapiens: they live and consume so that the climatic conditions are not affected and the rich natural resources would far. 20%, however, were the class of homo sapiens Globaliz : you are wasting and polluting. Self-criticism, he also asked on why the tropical country, Brazil set not so to solar energy.
"V on the Europeans, we have learned: My brother, I'm even" tells us Dr. Idrissa Embola from Guinea-Bissau. This way of thinking and way of life was after the fall of the Berlin Wall seems firmly on the road to prevail. The knowledge of the communities to survive together and to live simply, be in Africa but still standing. Whether the avalanche had erupted in his continent but still reside is questionable: The European consumption standards are too tempting.
After the values that guide the economy, also asked the Brazilian sociologist Maria Emilia Pacheco: The marketing of the entire life inevitably leads to outdo themselves in the consumer want. It should have to be carefully who to secure resources.
controversies have occurred that evening or not - behavior reminds participants from Mozambique because the African soils are predominantly poor, that an improvement of farming methods is urgently needed to feed the people in Africa. Such discourses will have to address the agencies and their partners: What are the requirements it elsewhere, which are not easy to argue about the different ways to pursue individual countries, given the extreme difference in development? The major current crises, edited by Wilfried Steen EED the debate as to force us to consider how the "hospitality for All can be guaranteed.
Jürgen Reichel
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