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Simultaneous PolicyThe principal barrier to
the implementation of any
significant measure to improve today’s economic, environmental or social problems is competition. Global de-regulated capital flows and corporations know no national boundaries. They force nations to compete with one another for capital, jobs and ever scarcer natural resources by their ability or threat to move elsewhere. |
Since virtually all nations are part of an increasingly integrated global economy, they are all subject to the same control. In advanced countries, it is exerted by the market itself ably assisted by the WTO; in developing countries, by the market and through “structural adjustment” imposed by the IMF or the World Bank; in non-industrialised countries by the virtual absence of any foreign direct investment leaving them to the consequences of rebel warfare, poverty, disease, increasing numbers of refugees and so on.
No nation is seeking to re-regulate financial markets because such action would cause capital flight, devaluation and inflation if not outright economic collapse. Similarly, policies that address environmental or social problems requiring higher public spending or higher costs for industry are precluded on the grounds of uncompetitiveness, adverse market reaction or the threat of job losses.
In de-regulating capital markets, nations have therefore unleashed a force they can no longer unilaterally control - a global merry-go-round now spinning so fast that no nation can get off.
"The Simultaneous Policy -
An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet"
by John Bunzl
With Foreword by Diana Schumacher
The greatest barrier to solving our global environmental, economic and social problems is destructive competition between nations to attract capital and jobs, harming society and the environment around the world. The Simultaneous Policy offers a solution and also outlines a political campaign which transcends party politics and offers the prospect of global transformation and survival.
The Simultaneous Policy is a lucid analysis of globalisation and a compelling solution to global problems such as global warming, out-of-control global financial markets and the growing power of transnational corporations.
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"It's ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try."
Noam Chomsky
"It is a good idea. What we need is politicians who will give this issue a high priority."
Polly Toynbee The Guardian
"I thought your proposal was an elegant idea of how change could occur. It reflects the core ideas of how to create consensus around change. This is the biggest challenge that we have."
Ed Mayo Executive Director, New Economics Foundation
"Your idea for a simultaneous policy is excellent.... Lets hope that people start to listen to this important message."
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director,
International Society for Ecology & Culture
"...the basic concept is excellent.... Let me know what develops!"
Jakob von Uexkull Founder and Chairman,
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
"The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy. Many movements and grassroots globalists working for these goals can coalesce around such innovative initiatives."
Hazel Henderson , Author of"Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy"
"Provocative and potentially transformative. There are ideas here that could change the world."
Prof. Charles Derber
Dept. of Sociology, Boston College, MA, USA
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