Buen Vivir - Neue Töne aus Lateinamerika mit Grupo Sal und Alberto Acosta

Group

When?

Agreement

Controversial

Shaping public opinion

now

• Introduce sufficiency education

• Practice: school gardens

• Theory: documentaries, information material, workshops

• communicate it as „basic education „no special course“ e.g. „global awareness.

• Offer Alternatives

• use campaigns to present sufficiency in a positive way

• Individual ecological footpring limit

later

• increase transparency for consumers (if it can be implemented now or later was a controversial)

Structure

Now

• Focus on local policies to allow participatory bottom-up processes

• Sufficiency politics as a process of social engineering – piecemeal approach instead of starting with a masterplan

• Harvest low hanging sufficiency fruits first – recognise sufficiency-supporting policies in „mainstream“ policy fields that already enjoy support for other reasons

• acceptance of informational instruments and economic instruments higher than of command + control

• check: where are blockades for sufficiency in the tax and subsidy system

• expression „good life“ instead of „sufficiency“

Political Instruments

Now

• ecological tax reform (including energy and resources), while adressing social impacts

• improve functioning of emission trading system

• introduce speed limits (120 highwasy, 30 city, 80 elsewhere)

• progressive electricity tarifs

• right to lower working hours

• prolong warranty periods

Later

• 30 hour working week