Principles for a New World
Making the World a better Place
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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!
- 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,
1996-12-28
(probably)