Seegras Logbook

1. Sustainable Development
   Economy and Ecology ARE the same. We support a sustainable development
   where everyone pays what he REALLY uses – in form of ressources, bad
   used ressources and the resulting pollution in ANY way. This would
   for instance result in heavily raised costs for not-sustainable
   ressources like oil, coal, gas and uranium. On one hand, the
   transport-costs would raise, but also would the construction and
   production of less consumpting cars, planes and ships.
2. Pay for Consumption
   This goes along with the sustainable development, and makes it
   possible to work. People generally don’t give a piss about
   anything, unless it touches their purses. This way it is possible
   to tax consumption of non-sustainable goods, while ecological more
   eloquent products get off cheaper. On the other side, people
   shouldn’t pay for their production – it’s economical nonsense.
3. Freedom of Consumption
   The measures mentionned under (1) and (2) will result in some kind
   of Freedom of Consumption. Of course can you drive a Sportscar
   that uses 20l/100Km – but you’ve got to PAY for that gas. You’re
   still completely free to buy what you want, as long you can afford
   it. You might want to eat heavily herbizidized (but wonderful-looking)
   apples – but the apples from biological planting will be cheaper…
4. Freedom of Production
   Nobody will mind that you repair your house, since production will
   not be taxed. Do it yourself, it will be cheaper. You want to sell
   something? As long as you already have it, you will have to pay
   nothing, since there’s no consumption. If you want to produce and
   sell, lets say chairs, you can do it. All you will have to pay for
   the ressources, BUT NOT FOR YOUR TIME USED FOR PRODUCING SOMETHING.
5. Freedom of Information
   The most valuable thing on earth ever been is KNOW-HOW. Knowing how
   to make a fire, knowing how to plant… Information is maybe the thing
   linked to humanity the most. Information is power, time, money,
   business, survival – nearly everything. It ist understandable that
   one will protect its own knowledge for the sake of his business,
   for instance. What ist not understandable is the protection of
   information which the producer wanted to see free. This is just
   whithelding information from the public – called censorship.
   Whether this is done to protect some ‘moral minority’ or to protect
   children from getting access to/viewing it, its just stupid to
   whitheld it. This applies also to violent/pervert and otherwise
   not liked pictures, movies, texts, books, online-Information
   etc. If you want to protect children from things like this,
   take care of it yourself – the state ist not responsible for
   protecting your child from REALITY!
6. Freedom of Speech
   Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Information, these two go very
   close. Since if you want to say something not only to a specific
   person but everyone, it is considered information. But there has
   to be still a fine line – if one says that the governement consists
   of idiots, it should be allowed (even stronger expressions). But
   if one appelates to shoot the government because it consists of idiots, that’s quite another thing. The same goes to fascism,
   racism, sexism and the like (But they surely won’t mind if I
   answer on a abuse of strangers with an abuse of racists, don’t
   do they? :) After all, the best answer to a bad book is a good
   book.

Peter Keel,

(probably)