Korten: A Trade Rule That Makes it Illegal to Buy Local?

[jwirr]

43. In the next two years the Rs are in control in the government. Any progress we make in climate

change issues or most issues will have to be local. Or not at all. I was thinking mostly about food issues. Change can come from the local level as much as it does from any corporation. In fact it more often comes from the bottom. Most of the progress I have seen has been local. Drive through Iowa, southern Minnesota and South Dakota and you see all the wind mills creating alternative energy. In many states it is solar. See the community gardens in cities. Farmers in Iowa are trying not till farming. Farmer's markets are everywhere.

In the England example I was equating the actions of England then with corporations today.

As to helping poorer countries by having streamlined regulations and importation rules. Many of those countries are already ruled by the IMF/corporate rules that encourage huge loans and then regulate them by telling them they have to grow crops that will be exported while the people go hungry. They force privatization of basic needs. These nice regulations of the IMF helps in turn to destroy small farmers and small attempts to build an economy that would help them. These countries have enough outside rules from the corporate world. They need to be free to make their own way.