Not as an act of philanthropy. Not at all. But as an act of friendliness, cooperation, in recognition of past unfriendly exploitation and in recognition of our common destiny on this beautiful planet. However, not so fast. This must go hand in hand with a profound shift in the North away from fossil fuels and away from hyper-consumption habits and patterns.
Democracy is on the agenda and that's first.
This is the key to planetary sanity, healing, and hope. Of major significance, once again, is what happens in the United States. The Greens here need all the help they can get. Part of that help is a gentle but firm understanding among Greens everywhere of just what is at stake and how critical it is that the Green struggle for political power in the United States be supported, for it is far more important than it has hitherto been thought to be. There is implicit in this the need to think through what a planetary government might look like.