There is really no direct link between the Ecological Catastrophes we are facing nowadays with the democracy, only one maybe, which is the freedom we have in a democratisch and mostly “free society”, to do what we desire to achieve in our lives, concerning our work, our education, our social contacts, our spendings and also on our belief. And unfortunately, all these freedoms have one by one negative effects on our climate, as there are no governmental limits put down for our usage of them, as long as we can still pay for any of them. Because our incomes and the values or the costs of our daily life’s primary means, like food, drink, housing, traveling do not follow each other as close as we should expect, we are mostly taken by surprises by being incapable in living today, the lives we lived some months ago. Of course it’s very foolish to think that the whole world should embark in a totalitarian system and forget about Democracy, to save the planet from going really bankrupt in all sidesteps, but without taking away the primary Democratic freedoms of anyone’s, putting limits to our daily consumptions would not be a bad idea at all. If for example each individual should only had access to a given amount of GB’s of internet usage, and a given amount of water, gas, electricity usage daily, and receiving an all-covering incomes of only what is needed to survive per month, this would certainly diminish considerably our personal carbon footprints and as a result the whole world would profit therefrom, as productions, consumptions and recirculation of all goods, as well as the consumption of all food-stuffs would be kept on a constant level of global satisfaction. I don’t believe that we, as free born human beings, should give up our freedom to speak, to read, to believe and to be/to become what we desire ourselves, when we should come to live in such a world-wide adjustment system, where no more millionaires and people starving from hunger and dorst should exist together. Each Democratic government could make such adjustments in the daily consumer-lives of their citizens, without putting them under such a mental strain that they think of themselves as being only a “number” identified to be followed in anything they do, or anywhere they go, something very common now in most authoritarian regimes, where the separation between rich and poor gets each day greater, in the winst of the rich people, having the dominion over the poor ones, this is not the aim of Democracy and will never be. Such measures could only be implemented in all countries, in limiting our use of anything provided by the Nature, via the providers of our countries, directly to our homes and to us personally, to keep us in living a happy and healthy, prosperous and productive life, Globally, without letting some of the countries profiting much more than others, from what is nowadays “left over” as products in our earth, with unfortunately mostly depleted natural resources. An all countries involving regulatory Organization is very much needed to decide over our personal, daily needs, on a very flexible manner, according to the situation this world as a whole experiences each day, to provide each of us with his/her most important consumable needs to save the Planet Earth, without making from him/her only a number, full of agony and suffering, having lost the identity God gave us all, from our birthday until our leaving this world forever more.

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The link between democracy and climate action is something we don’t talk about enough