Why You Need Social Justice and Sustainable Living

Everyone wants pretty much the same things in life. Most of us want to feel safe, with food on the table and a secure, pleasant home. We want love and we want happiness and we want freedom.

How do we achieve such things for everyone? The population of the world is increasing and the resources are finite. Can we create a system which delivers the basics of a good life to all or do we settle for a some have and some don’t model?
In fact we have no choice. As soon as some have and some don’t you have a recipe for instability. The don’t haves will want to be the haves and the haves will be desperate not to become the don’t haves. Feeling safe and secure will go out of the window.

We have to create a world which aims to offer everyone decent food, clean water, clean air and housing as well as the freedom to be creative, to learn, to follow their interests and talents. With the right approach, the birth rate will fall automatically. With invention and will we can live sustainably on this planet.

We may not achieve this goal 100% but it is nonetheless what we need to be striving for. There may be various solutions available but if this is not the basic goal then it is unlikely it will create the answer. The model of trickle down free market capitalism has failed; the model of totalitarian communism has also failed. The model of sustainable living and social justice has not yet been tried.

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The Green Surge - a chance for real change in politics

Bristol Green Party celebrated its 500th member this month. The irony was that by the time the actual event occurred we were already at 565 members. Nationally, 1000 people joined the party over the last fortnight, many of them young people and students. And we are supposed to be living in a time of political apathy!

Here in Windmill Hill ward, we launched our residents' survey last weekend. The rain poured down and we only managed to survey five streets, but the response was phenomenal. Fifty surveys were completed and half of these said they would consider voting Green at the next election. Several offered to help out with the campaign!

What is causing this massive interest in The Green Party? There are a number of factors of course. The recent exclusion of The Greens from the TV debate has given us a huge amount of publicity and ignited public sympathy. But the Greens have been doing well all year, gaining a significant vote share at the May elections in Bristol, Liverpool, Solihull and Scotland, among other places.

My feeling is that we have become the only real alternative voice in UK politics. We have managed to convey that we are not purely about the environment, but that our policies are about supporting people too, in a sustainable and fair way. We are all born with equal rights to live on this planet, but inequality is increasing and wealth is being ever more concentrated in the hands of a few. Changing this is at the heart of the Green movement as much as looking after the planet we live on.

Sustainable Living for Windmill Hill

I have lived in Bristol for four years, half of that time in Lower Totterdown and now around the corner in Lower Knowle. I love Bristol. I am excited every day about living here.

I am interested in your lives. I care about your children or grandchildren being able to get to school safely. I care about the quality of air that you breathe. I care that you have access to health facilities if you need them. Most of all, I care that these things can go on being provided for the whole of your lives– it is called sustainable living.

Please get in touch if you have any comments or questions or would like to help. Email me at deb.joffe@bristolgreenparty.org.uk

We are now asking residents to complete a short survey about the issues which matter to them most. We are looking for people to help deliver the survey – the more of us who help, the more residents we can ask.

If you can help please contact me or Barney on windmillhill@bristolgreenparty.org.uk

To complete the survey online please click this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3G576FC