13 finally from vandana shivas perspective unless

necessarily must consume not much, very little, or nothing at all in order to save the bit of nature we have left." [13] Finally, from Vandana
Shiva's perspective, "
unless worldviews
and lifestyles
are restructured
ecologically, peace and justice will continue to be violated
and, ultimately,
the very survival of humanity will be threatened
." [14] For Shiva and other global agents of resistance, the
ecological and peace and justice
imperatives require us to act
in the here and now. Her vision of "Earth Democracy" with its emphasis
on balancing authentic needs with a local ecology provides an essential guidepost to what we all can do to stop the ravaging of the environment
and to salvage the planet. As she insists, "Earth Democracy is not just about the next protest or next World Social Forum; it is about what we do
in between. It addresses the global in our everyday lives, our everyday realities, and creates change globally by making change locally." [15] The
local, national, and transnational struggles and visions of change are further evidence that the
imperial project is not only being
contested but also being transformed on a daily basis
. According to Mark Engler, "The powerful will abandon their strategies
of control only when it grows too costly for them to do otherwise. It is
the concerted efforts of people coming together
in
local communities and in movements spanning borders that
will raise the costs
.
Empire becomes unsustainable ... when
the people of the world resist."
[16] Whether in the rural villages of Brazil or India, the jungles of Mexico or Ecuador, the city squares
of Cochabama or Genoa, the streets of Seattle or Soweto, there has been, and continues to be, resistance around the globe to the imperial
project. If the ruling elite and many of the citizens of the United States have not yet accepted the fact that
the empire is dying
and with it
the concentric circles of economic, political, environmental, and civilizational crises,
the global multitudes have been
busy at work,
digging its
future
grave and planting the seeds for another possible world.
[17]

at: neolib sustainable
Collapse is imminent—now is unique because public policy has exhausted the range of viable fixes
Wallerstein, Ph.D., 11 —senior research scholar at Yale University, PhD from Columbia (Immanuel,
January/ February 2011, “THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WON'T RECOVER, NOW OR EVER,”
, RBatra)
The problem is that
the basic costs of all production have risen remarkably. There are the personnel expenses of
all kinds
-- for unskilled workers, for cadres, for top-level management.
There are the costs incurred as producers pass on the costs of
their production
to the rest of us -- for detoxification, for renewal of resources, for infrastructure. And the
democratization of the world has led to
demands for more and more education, more and more health provisions, and more and more
guarantees of lifetime income. To meet these demands, there has been a significant increase in taxation
of all kinds. Together,
these costs have risen beyond the point that permits serious capital accumulation.