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ECOCLUB.com News - June 2010
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Editorial
On World Environment Day: While economic leaders and their "corporately responsible" pr posse are marking one more 'world' day with crocodile tears and new greenwashing recipes, fewer and fewer believe them, amid rising poverty, violence, unemployment, inequality, pollution and declining human and workers rights. There is a gradual realisation that the dominant economic system does not simply need beautification, but real change, beyond 'green economy' apolitical banalities. Who will coordinate this change, where, when and how it will come about is uncertain, what is clear is that many permutations and combinations will have to be tried. Real change is also needed in small-scale tourism, involving alternative, cooperative and perhaps non-monetary hospitality structures, meeting real needs of host communities and guests, promoting friendship, solidarity and social justice rather than 'responsible' and 'sustainable' green microcapitalism - The Editor
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