Anne Salmond: NZ is a democracy, not a company – Newsroom

Another excellent piece from Anne Salmond giving an opportunity to examine a larger context.

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It may be that a ‘business’ (especially a corporation) is not the best way to achieve global democratic outcomes. This is especially worrisome when we need fundamental change in the way society is organized in order to deal with the unprecedentedly globalized existential challenges of climate change, nuclear weapons, and generally the massive impact on the planet of the Anthropocene Age. Probably only global democracy could bring about this change.

But at this point human societies know that the old way (exploitation, including agriculture as we have known it – there are known alternatives, btw) is fundamentally challenged. This is terrifying. The terror is unsurprisingly mainstream. But the thing to note is that this most angry and most desperate government in the history of this country is politically capturing this moment of terror. If it seems that it has gone beyond what a usual National government might have been expected to try to do, perhaps that presents an opportunity to go back and evaluate history and its cultures to find the sources of this exploitation approach.

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