Healthy food, drink, energy here, now— Zivkovic

Minor editing by Carolyn Bennett

Not enough to be high-tech

“What could be wrong with the production of healthy food and energy from renewable sources?

While waiting for convincing global solutions, more education about and policies for food- and energy-sustainable communities will do no harm.

“It seems that globalization has put a new request on an ideological menu — it is not enough to know what is to be done. What also is needed is a clear answer to the question what is to be produced?

“In the previous system of macroeconomic co-ordination, the issues of labor market, wages, education of the labor force and production management were raised as political issues, while industrial and technology policies were regarded as very welcome ‘innovations’ indeed. With policies like this, we could outline developmental structures for an economy in the long run and produce more or less anything in the short term.

“… That ‘everything’ is now produced ‘globally’, and the new industrial paradigm must answer what can be and needs to be produced ‘here’.

“For the new industries, it is not enough, maybe not even needed, to be high-tech. What matters is to be and stay here — without having a harmful impact on the population and the environment.

“Good food, healthy drink and clean energy could be among the first on the list.”

Source

“The ‘New Social Democracy’ Must Have Substance,” November 5, 2010 (Milan F. Zivkovic),

http://www.social-europe.eu/2010/11/the-%e2%80%98new-social-democracy%e2%80%99-must-have-substance/

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