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THE ECOLOGIST Vol.29, No2, May/June 1999 p. 198, Vandana Shiva: The
Two Fascisms A vilaggyarmatositas (,globalisation") legjobban 
gazdasagi parancsuralmi rendszerkent irhato le, amely  szelsoseggel
fenyeget: a (vallasi) hagyomanyokhoz szelsosegesen ragaszkodo
aramlattal (fundamentalizmus). VILAGGYARMATOSITAS ES A VALLASI
TURELMETLENSEG 
 Az utobbi es a fasizmus akkor tamad fel, ha kulso erok valahol mely
 bizonytalansagot valtnak ki. Ez tortent Nemetorszagban a harmincas
 evekben es Indiaban 60 evvel ezelott az angolok ,oszd meg es
 uralkodj" politikajanak a hatasara. Ma ilyen kulso erot jelentenek a
 hagyomanyos kulturakat felszamolo amerikanizalas es a vallalatok
 altal kikenyszeritett egyoldalu mezogazdasag. 
A vallasi turelmetlenseg sokfele jelentkezik. Indiaban a Babri mecset
lerombolasa, a gujarati templomok elleni tamadasok, egy krikettpalya
felasasa, ahol az indiai-pakisztani merkozest kellett volna
lejatszani, egy mozi felgyujtasa egy film vetitese miatt. India ilyen
utra tert es ezert a vilaggyarmatositas felelos. Az erosen
kozpontositja a hatalmat, elpusztitja a megelhetesi lehetosegeket,
elzavarja az embereket a lakohelyukrol, pusztitja a kornyezetet - ezek
a szelsosegek magvai. MIKENT TAPLALJA EGYIK FASIZMUS A MASIKAT? A
vilaggyarmatositas sok szinten eredmenyez szelsosegeket. - A vallasi
turelmetlenseg gyakran visszahatas a vilaggyarmatositassal szemben - a
gyarmatositott tarsadalmak es kulturak elidegenedett duhos fiataljai
igy felelnek azonossagtudatuk es biztonsaguk folszamolasara. - A
vilaggyarmatositas altal kifosztott, gazdasagi biztonsagukbol
kiforgatott emberek a biztonsagerzetuket keresik a politikaval
atitatott vallasi azonossagtudatban es szuk nacionalizmusban. - A
vilaggyarmatositas felszamolja a nemzeti gazdasagi fuggetlenseget s a
politikusok a szavazoikat a vallasi es kulturalis valasztovonalak
menten keresik es a politikat felelemmel es gyulolettel itatjak at. -
A gyarmatosito erok az oszd meg es uralkodj elvet alkalmazva,
kihasznaljak a vallasi ellenteteket, hogy ezzel szetaprozzak a
vilaggyarmatositas elleni tabort. Ez gyakran megfigyelheto Indiaban.
Van kereszteny, muszlim, szikh es hindu turelmetlenseg, s a partok
gyakran ezek szellemeben szervezodnek. Van egy szelsoseges ,hindutva"
part, ami nem azonos a hinduizmussal. A hinduizmus mindig tisztelte a
tobbi hitet, a tobbi isten imadasat, vagy nem-imadasat. A hindutva
eszme ezzel ellentetes reakcios politikai ero,  amelynek alapja nem a
szeretet, hanem a gyulolet, nem a befogadas hanem a kirekesztes, nem a
tarsadalom egysegesitese, hanem szetbomlasztasa. Egyesiteni kell
eroinket a WTO, a Vilagbank, a ,szabad kereskedelem" politikaja, a
Monsanto es a Cargill ellen, de a hindutva szelsosegek ellen is. A nok
szamara ez annyit jelent, hogy kuzdeni kell mind a vallasi, mind a
kapitalista apajogu rendszer ellen. 

Szamomra az eroszakmentesseg annyit jelent, hogy mi okologikusan es
bekeben elunk egyutt minden fajjal. Minden faj a ,Vasudhaiva
Kutumbhakan", a Fold csalad resze. Az eroszakmentesseg ismerve, hogy
teret hagyunk masok szamara es ez az okologiai eloiras ervenyes a
politikara is. Az eroszakmentesseg es demokracia vezet a tobbfeleseg
szovetsegehez. A tevekenyseg lehetosegei igen szelesek, de azok
nehanyunkat, akik antifasiszta allaspontrol tamadjuk a
vilaggyarmatositast, allandoan hamis vadakkal tamadnak azok, akik
tamogatjak mind a vilaggyarmatositast, mind a vallasi szelsosegeket.
Ezen  hamis hirvereshez tartozik, hogy indiai kutatokat mozgositottak
a Monsanto tamogatasara es ezek azzal vadoljak a kornyezetvedoket,
hogy a ,novenyvedoszer-erdekcsoport" tagjai, es hogy egyesek
szelsojobboldaliak. A hazugsagok haszonelvezoi termeszetesen a
nemzetekfeletti vallalatok. Vilagos, hogy az o erdekuk, hogy mi osszuk
meg az eronket, s bizalmatlansag, gyanakvas es veszekedes legyen
kozottunk. A vilaggyarmatositas tarsadalmi, gazdasagi es okologiai
bizonytalansagot teremt. Alaaknazza a polgari szabadsagjogokat es
veszelyes modon megosztja az eronket. Szukseg van egy uj mozgalomra a
vallalatokkal szembeni szabadsagert es uj bekemozgalomra mindenfajta
fundamentalistaval szemben. A tobbi ember iranti bizalomra,
egyutterzesre, tisztelete es szeretetre van szukseg. A 21. szazad
fasizmusa ellen olyan mozgalmat kell szervezni, mint amilyent Gandhi
szervezett a britek ellen.
 Pi.

Kedves Fidusz!
Igazad van, persze, hogy nem a lanya.
Donella (Dana) Dennis felesege volt, egyutt irtak, meg sok mas
szerzovel egyutt a Romai Klub elso jelenteset, a Novekedes hatarait.
(Limits to Growth). Ez 1972-ben jelent meg, nagy vihart kavart.
Magyarul csak a Kossuth szamozott sorozataban jelent meg,
partbizottsagi titkarok stb. szamara, benne elmondja a nevtelen
eloszo, hogy mindez, amit itt az olvaso talal, egyaltalan nem
vonatkozik a megvalosult szocializmus orszagaira, csak a kaotikusan
mukodo kapitalizmusra, stb. Van az eredeti, angol konyvbol egy
peldanyom, Dana es Dennis irtak bele 1983-ban itt Budapesten, egy
csopaki talkozo elott. Annak a cime "sustainable agriculture" volt, de
meg nem szabadott fenntarthatonak forditani...

Ennyi. Akinek Romai Klub anyag kell, adhatok. 

Piros

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BELIEVE THE PROPHETS OF DOOM?


	Of all the tragic characters in Greek myths, the one who gives me
the most shivers is Cassandra.  The god Apollo gave her a wonderful gift
-- the ability to foretell the future -- then followed it up with a
terrible curse -- no one would ever believe her.  I can just imagine
Cassandra, standing there inside the walls of Troy, yelling, "No, no,
whatever you do, don't haul that big wooden horse in here!" 

	Now a friend of mine has written a book called Believing
Cassandra.  (I have to acknowledge a strong positive bias for this author
and this book from its very beginning.)  His name is Alan AtKisson, and
the question he asks is, what if you come to believe Cassandra? 

	What if you believe the modern Cassandras who say the climate is
changing, the ecosystems are disappearing, the human enterprise is
unsustainable and heading for disaster?  You know, those unlistened-to
folks who keep yelling, "No, no, whatever you do, don't haul those
gas-guzzling, air-polluting sports utility vehicles in here!" 

	Alan believes those folks.  Furthermore, he believes that
Cassandra's curse can be broken, in fact is just asking to be broken,
because the gift of prophecy and the curse of being ignored must run
together and therefore can be broken together.  If no one listens to
warnings, the prophets of doom will be right.  But if people listen, they
will ward off disaster, and the prophets will have egg on their faces. 

	Alan has crafted an unusual book from this insight.  On one hand,
it's a clear, sober catalog of the warnings being issued at this turn of
this century and millennium.  On another hand, it's a cheerful argument
about why none of those warnings has to come true.  And (would someone
please fetch me a third hand?) it's a series of sketches from Alan's own
adventurous life about what happens to a person who dedicates himself to
proving Cassandra wrong. 

	I'd guess that everyone will read the sketches first. 

	They range from a terrifying bus trip in Malaysia on a rainy night
with no windshield wipers and no lights ("Obviously I survived") to a
meeting with Al Gore, back when Alan hoped he might actually exhibit
strong environmental leadership.  From leading a workshop with a group of
Macedonian environmentalists (without understanding Macedonian), to
singing a love song to a herd of German cows. 

	Everywhere Alan goes, he sings.  He wards off doom and gloom with
his head, as a writer and consultant, and with his heart, as a minstrel
and composer.  His steady companion on his journeys is his guitar.  More
than once I've seen him sum up a conference on endocrine disrupters or
sustainability indicators with a rollicking ditty that he wrote overnight
and that gets the point across much better than the scientific report. 

Some of his songs are funny, some are lyrical and moving, a few,
especially the earliest ones he wrote, are just plain dismal. 

	Pull up a star and hear my tale of woe. 
	I built a planet just a few billion years ago. 
	It was a lovely little blue-green ball. 
	One of my life-forms became self-aware,
	They started messin' with my recipe for air,
	And now that planet's got no life at all!  Yeah, it's a
	Dead Planet
	(Yeah, I'm just gettin' back from the funeral)
	Dead Planet
	(Don'tcha hate it when they leave the casket open?)
	I got them old Dead Planet Blues.

	Well, that's what happens first, when you believe Cassandra.  You
get depressed.  But the depression doesn't last.  You begin to see how to
make her wrong.  Then you discover how much exciting, practical, doable
work there is to do and fun there is to have in the process. 

	What I like especially about Alan's book is that his response to
believing Cassandra is so different from mine.  I'm a country creature; I
hang out on organic farms.  He's a city animal; he hangs out in boardrooms
and in bars where the music is good.  I spend a lot of time alone with
computers and statistics; he works with groups, often large groups.  I
write opinion columns;  he writes songs. 

	Who would guess that songs could help save the world?  Alan would,
and that's the biggest point of his book.  Once you believe Cassandra,
there's no one right or best thing to do.  Wherever you are, whatever
you're good at, whatever you do with ease and joy, you can contribute in
ways large and small to turning away from the doom. 

	Especially if you can do it with both your mind and your heart,
with humor and fun, even with song. 

	(Believing Cassandra is published by Chelsea Green Publishing
Company and so is a CD of Alan's songs.) 

	(Donella H. Meadows is an adjunct professor of Environmental
Studies at Dartmouth College and director of the Sustainability Institute,
a think/do tank working toward sustainable systems.)