Environment

Nevarnost ni komercializacija kot taka, temveč je nevarno naše stalno istovetenje z njeno notranjo in zunanjo manifestacijo, ki človeško inteligenco odvrača od narave in duhovne evolucije. Kaj je torej zlo drugega kot naše istovetenje z njim?

If the sharing economy movement is to play a role in shifting society away from the dominant economic paradigm, it will have to get political. And this means guarding against the co-optation of sharing by the corporate sector, while joining forces with a much larger body of activists that have long been calling - either explicitly or implicitly - for more transformative and fundamental forms of economic sharing across the world.

ここ数年間に渡り、STWRは、どのように分かち合いの真の形態が２１世紀の政治経済のチャレンジに関係するかについての概要を述べた様々な文献を発表してきました。これらのブログ、記事またはレポートの多くは分かち合いの経済に直接的に関係し、４つの広い副題に基づき分類されています。

A vibrant debate is beginning to question the meaning of sharing in relation to the big questions of our time. In a recent article printed in STIR magazine, STWR argues that this emerging economic concept should not be beholden to solely personal, consumer-oriented or commercialised forms of collaboration, and must ultimately be reflected in government policies on the national and international level.

At a time when the risk of civilizational collapse is widely forewarned, it is time to recognise that the call for sharing is a cause that can unite concerned citizens working on a diverse range of interconnected global issues.

As the influence of multinational corporations over public policy continues unabated, the key challenge for those campaigning for social and environmental justice is how to redistribute political power back into the hands of ordinary people.

Can the sharing economy movement address the root causes of the world’s converging crises? Unless the sharing of resources is promoted in relation to human rights and concerns for equity, democracy, social justice and sustainability, then such claims are without substantiation – although there are many hopeful signs that the conversation is slowly moving in the right direction.