Our Six Spheres of Activity
Message from Ervin Laszlo, founder and president of The Club of Budapest, co-founder of the WorldShift Foundation and president of its board of trustees.
The Club of Budapest is Founding Member
of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative
12/03/2009 - 12/09/2009
The 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth
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Listen to the Interview with Erwin Laszlo by Eva Herr from Infinite Consciousness
We support the shift of our economic focus from transnational corporate “fusionism” to regional subsistence. Subsistence economy focuses on a “natural” way of living. This is not “back to stone age”. It rather means a spiral, wavelike progress out of the life-destroying habits of today’s so-called civilization and accepting and welcoming the complexity of life.
We support the development of sustainable, decentralized—that is local—high-tech production, combined with local use of local resources. and the redesign of our monetary system according to a fourfold model: 1) economy of gifting (a basic matriarchal feature), 2) counter-trade (barter) economy, 3) complementary local monetary systems for regional trade, and 4) unified currency (for example called “terra”) for interregional and global trade. In our eyes compound interest has to be abolished. Also the concept of “owning” land must be reconsidered.
Regional subsistence is committed to fair trade. It appreciates community, supports redevelopment of social structures and teaches the necessity and the pleasure to share resources—thus making regions ready to downscale consumption, shift values from material to social wealth and to deal with migration in a peaceful way.