Introdução

Em primeiro lugar, três trechos da primeira minuta do documento final da recente Conferência da ONU sobre a crise:

" The anti-values of greed, individualism, and exclusion should be replaced by solidarity, common good and inclusion. The objective of our economic and social activity should not be the limitless, endless, mindless accumulation of wealth in a profit centered economy but rather a people centered economy that guarantees human needs, human rights, and human security, as well as conserves life on earth. These should be universal values that underpin our ethical and moral responsibility for the stewardship of the Earth for all living things, ourselves, our children and grandchildren and all future generations.

Mother Earth can live without human beings but we cannot live without Mother Earth. The values and ethics required for survival demand that we combat climate change and global warming, loss of habitat and mass extinctions, deforestation and loss of water sources, soil degradation and desertification, pollution of oceans, fresh water, the air, soils, other species and
ourselves, as well as the overuse of the world’s resources. Each year we consume one third more of what the planet is able to regenerate. Without change, we will need two planets Earth by the year 2030.

The prevailing socio-economic system concentrates income, wealth and power through cyclical booms and busts with winners and losers in both. The political economy of the model has sought to reduce concentration through anti-monopoly laws and redistributive policies such as progressive taxation and public social service delivery. The values and ethics required for survival demand that inequality be actively reduced. The recognition of asymmetries between the rich and the poor with compensation for them has been proven to reduce inequalities between and within nations. Overcoming poverty and reducing inequality are core objectives of a people centered economy that addresses human needs, human rights and human
security."

Em seguida, partes do discurso de abertura do Presidente da Assembléia-Geral da ONU:

Antes que nada, necesitamos superar un pasado agobiante y forjar un futuro esperanzador. Hay que reconocer que la actual crisis económico-financiera es el último resultado de un modo egoísta e irresponsable de vivir, de producir, de consumir, de establecer relaciones entre nosotros y con la naturaleza que implicó una sistemática agresión a la Tierra y a sus ecosistemas y una profunda disimetría social, una expresión analítica que disimula una perversa injusticia social planetaria. A mi juicio, hemos llegado a la última frontera. El camino hasta ahora recorrido, parece haberse cerrado y, de continuar así, puede llevarnos al mismo destino ya anticipado por los dinosaurios.

Por eso, los controles y las correcciones del modelo vigente, sin duda, necesarios, son a mediano y a largo plazo, insuficientes. Su fuerza interna para hacer frente a la crisis global se muestra extremamente débil. Quedarse en solo controles y correcciones del modelo demostraría una cruel falta de sensibilidad social, de imaginación y de compromiso con la creación de una paz justa y duradera. El egoísmo y la codicia no se pueden remendar. Tienen que ser sustituidos por la solidaridad y eso, obviamente, implica un cambio radical. Si realmente lo que queremos es una paz estable y duradera, debemos estar absolutamente claros que debemos ir más allá de controles y correcciones del modelo existente y crear algo que apunte hacia un nuevo paradigma de convivencia social."

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