Politicians talk about "creating wealth" and "growth", referring to financial wealth, but the processes they are talking about are fundamentally exploitative and destructive, of people as well as the environment. Our true fundamental wealth is our natural wealth and financial wealth can only be a function of that.
Everything we need comes from a healthy environment, from sunlight, air and water to food, fuel and materials.
A political-economic system that doesn't recognise that is basically flawed. In a successful post-industrial way of life, human beings will remember that we are just a part of a complicated web of life, and that the more varied and robust the whole network is, the better the long term quality of our human lives can be.
On our One World Future Farm, we intend to put this idea into practice, producing our basic needs of food, fuel and shelter as much as we can locally, trading with surpluses and generating yields and incomes from the highest value items we can develop, eg furniture, cleverly designed to be made from our regenerated local resources, a by-product of a regenerating landscape.
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