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Thoughts on Green Communism

I refuse to say too much t the risk of sounding utopian or dictating the future  
 
While none of us could know what a green society would need to be like there is a few things it isn't too difficult to see it would require:  
•It would have to be anarchist i.e. anti-state, anti-capitalist, anti-hierarchy, anti-patriarchy. No borders or nations. It must be opposed to all forms of oppression. It must be a grassroots democracy, egalitarian and without private property.  
•more localism but international coordination  
•wholescale  reorganization of food, technology, industry, housing, energy, communication, transportation.. essentially all aspects of society. Green Anarchism adds onto the demands of anarchism. It makes considerations more complex.  
•I would argue it must be communist since a market seems to require or encourage consumerism but I'm willing for others to experiment to prove me wrong. Everyone should have what they need.  
• It must involve alternative ways of energy use and production and potentially reduced energy use.  
•Reduction of car usage and production.  
•It must involve grassroots food production and  sustainable organic farming.  
•It must involve most but not necessarily all people moving to a vegan diet since meat consumption and production is so environmentally damaging and unethical and must be so given it's potential for profit making under capitalism.  
•Probably use of something like a precautionary principle whereby the consequences of a technologies use or potential abuse would be considered and it might happen that some technology is not developed if it is thought that it could be oppressive  
•No rigid divisions between town/country, city and wilderness,  
•minimal technology/industry. Some places might choose to have none.  Technology only where its needed  
•any fuels used are renewable  
•locally produced food in bioregions  
•no pesticides/ GMOS - organic food  
•community becomes the site of democracy  
•Less travel. Less need to travel except for fun, for adventure.  
•slower pace of life  
•  Massive Recycling.  Reuse. Repair.  
•  Less meat driven diets. More vegan diet.  
alternative more responsible  relationships with animals -No Zoos  
 Transformative community based justice  
 
  
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