How has civilization stumbled on till now with suzerainty over our backyards left unexercised and the universal veto on every development of every kind, up till now, out of the power of our finest dreamers? Everyone, under this plan, will thereby be able to say no to everything. I expect there will even be a plan for virtual backyards, a kind of cap-and-trade system for the lawn-deprived.
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Psst…do you like politics? Sign up for the Post’s wry new morning newsletter, Full Briefing. And though it is not mentioned in the manifesto, I am certain the authors had thoughts for those who have no backyards. It takes the greedy self out of the equation entirely, and instead puts the focus of human aspiration clearly where it belongs: our (pesticide free) backyards. Not in my back yard - a global principle for world peace, organic farming, an end to capitalism and the hegemony of the world’s banks: universal NIMBYism - the key to the new social order and a way to put paid to all those prophecies of the end of our whirling, warming world.
Bubble gum manufacturers of days gone by would have wrapped their product in it. Zen masters will faint before its terse profundity. And who will not say amen to that selfless prayer? Why it’s the Sermon on the Mount, all of Malthus, and dear saintly George Orwell’s pleas for a better world put in a nugget of the deepest wisdom. Article content Universal NIMBYism - the key to the new social order and a way to put paid to all those prophecies of the end of our whirling, warming world.īut to go to the core of its message, we have to pay notice to its one, outstanding axiom the one ringing declaration that captures its very core principle and the planet-shaking breadth of Leap Manifesto’s vision: if you wouldn’t want it in your backyard, then it doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Somewhere, ages and ages hence, people will look back on the Leap Manifesto and - after noting its tributes to Mao, who put the Leap in Leap, and Marx, who for two centuries put the stamp on quality manifestos - see it stands, nobly, with those other urgings that have marked the rise and salvation of the humankind. It is a planet-saving cri de coeur from this country’s finest minds - a call for global renewal, which, as a document, will stand in time with other landmark productions of humankind. The offspring of folk singers, deliquescent thespians, a clutch of social justice warriors and the very principle of buoyancy itself, Pamela Anderson, the Leap Manifesto is Luther’s 95 theses for the climate-haunted. It is a stirring blueprint not since the launch of the iPhone has the world’s ear strained for such wisdom. This is the background out of which - as Milton says - “rose like an exhalation,” a great counterblast from the assembled wizards and wonders at the Toronto International Film Festival … a document called the Leap Manifesto. And our very own barometer of carbon dioxide (the young plant’s meat, the old growth’s porridge), Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, went full oracular, speaking out of Copenhagen that same year, and put all our oil-cursed destinies on a very short leash indeed: “We have hours to act to avert a slow-motion tsunami that could destroy civilization as we know it.” Exfoliating on that dark theme – I imagine a real clock ticking as she spoke - she amplified: “We no longer have decades we have hours.” Just one more: in 2009, Columbia University Professor James Hansen gave the Earth but four years before perdition and irreversible full-broil. Gordon Brown, when he was clinging by his fingernails to the British prime ministership, once narrowed the planet’s hopes to a mere 50 days - which it helps to point out was a claim he made in 2009, roughly 2,100 days ago - which, the world still spinning, the sun still beaming, yields a margin of error that must make pollsters drool, being a trifling 42 times the duration of his actual prediction.
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