Aaron Karp is an activist writing a book about why our ecological crises demand economic and cultural transformation and how the climate movement can lay the groundwork for these changes. He writes at freedomsurvival.org.
The expansion of human rights in the face of relentless attacks from established hierarchies speaks to the power of ordinary people and an innate human desire for dignity and freedom.
We should struggle over the meaning of “development,” not cede its definition to elites. Ultimately, social transformation will require a mass movement for a development that is rooted in the ethos of democracy.