[P2P-F] A Global New Deal For The Commons:

Mon Dec 2 11:10:08 CET 2019

Its nice to have such understanding shared, yet can we really enable it to
be integrated in current power dynamics without bringing forward proper
information tools to enable such emergence?

Such as An Editable Graph DataBase, using Open Linked Data,

I can enable visualizing externalities / costs / opportunities / causality,
and facilitate / determine networked agreements amongst us based on
contextual understanding.

This topic has been discussed already over the last decennial ++ on our
lists.
I don't understand why the bulb doesn't light, to such point that I do not
see much of a point further evangelizing the commons, cosmolocalization,
p2pgovernance, etc unless such technical solutions are understood by all of
us.

Some went on working on such ideas, with various tools to integrate.

http://ceptr.org/

One tool being REA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources,_events,_agents_(accounting_model)

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Holo-REA

and at a smaller less well known scale, some other experimentation and
entry point of explanations for such paradigm

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Netention

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:06 PM Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> HERE IS JOSEPH CEDERWALL'S PROPOSAL:
> A Global New Deal For The Commons:
>
> https://thedig.nz/editorial/hope-for-nature-a-new-deal-for-the-commons/?
>
> I propose that what humanity and the planet desperately needs is a Global
> New Deal For The Commons. Such a deal would require a global mobilisation
> to ensure that the natural and cultural commons are protected and
> sustainable biodiversity-friendly and cooperatist land-use is adopted. If
> structured right, such a deal would have a massive impact towards restoring
> the planetary ecosystem and biodiversity, as well as healing deprived and
> hopeless communities everywhere in the process.
>
> To truly turn the biodiversity and climate crises around, this new deal
> needs to happen at least on a scale of wartime efforts such as the Marshall
> Plan of WWII or the New Deal of the Depression-era. As Rutger Bregman
> argues, centralised state action will be essential to any realistic efforts
> to drive an environmental effort on the scale required. However, I am less
> cynical than Bregman about the power of bottom-up efforts, and believe a
> properly balanced combination of the two is essential.
>
> A biodiversity-focused investment on this scale could combine central
> investment with an approach focused on catalysing, fostering, and scaling
> bottom-up land-use initiatives and ideas. It could prioritise local
> communities as workforces and support the emergence of ground-up,
> decentralised solutions and initiatives over centrally imposed or
> market-based solutions wherever possible.
>
> Such a new deal for the commons would require associated work on reforming
> land tenure and local democratic and economic institutions on a scale not
> attempted since the communist project. However, rather than the top-down
> command and control approach of communism, it would provide a framework,
> resources and tools for communities to re-learn how to live harmoniously
> with each other and with nature’s abundance. This approach could spread
> knowledge, technology and best practice for environmental restoration
> globally through open sourcing IP and implementing solidarity networks or
> networks of mutual aid across society.
>
> This new deal would also require real action on the national and global
> level to reform global governance and regulation and build a more just
> international order and institutions. This would require new agreements
> such as an international law of “ecocide,” and strengthened international
> environmental laws and enforcement mechanisms to ensure the compliance of
> corporations and rogue imperialist nations. This new order would also need
> to address debt-enslavement, eternal growth imperatives, and rebalance
> global wealth disparity to stop wealthy nations from shifting the impacts
> of growth onto vulnerable populations and ecosystems.
>
> However, crucially, to bring about this new order, we must find ways to
> continue challenging the narrow confines of permitted thought and debate
> keeping us locked in the destructive dominion paradigm. It would need to
> restore the rule of law and ensure the protection of whistleblowers,
> journalists, activists and politicians challenging this narrative. If not,
> who will hold power accountable for their inaction or blocking of real
> progress? Who will continue to tell the stories and defend the rights of
> those on the margins building the alternative futures discussed above?"
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