Petrol dependent

It recalls us John Berger that the worst worry than faces our company is that of having invaded the spirit and the thought. That we should lend a careful attention to what encircles us. The celebration of the day without cars is a possibility to cause said exercise, therefore the invasion of vehicles is one of the better examples to understand why our company runs aimlessly, wastes its energy possibilities and understands that more (newer, larger, with more rolled flat) is equal to better. Because of it, with success, has been linked to that celebration a new political concept that should have very in account,

Of some way that escapes exists themselves me to me a dominant thought that relates directly economic growth (more production, more I consume) with development, with prosperity and even (here my alarms they shoot themselves) as remedy against the inequalities. So much they have invaded us the thought with the idea that there is a direct relation between growth and development, that even some alternative authors bottled in these themes do not accept already substitute terminology, as sustainable development, local developmentor human development, arguing that is verbiage to disguise to the wolf. They are proposals that can be born of good purposes, to assure a social equilibrium, to respect and to preserve the environment, etc, but that -they say- do not question the model of growth according to accumulation, the capitalist growth.

The fascination by the story of the economic growth is such that Serge Latouche, explains: "We consider positive any production and any expense even when the production is damaging... In matter of development the price that one must pay in the social plan and human is often enormous". The agriculture that feeds us nowadays is, lamentable, a good example of what signifies to prioritize the capitalist growth. Its development has surpassed in global terms the satisfaction of the needs of the world population (although the hunger continue affecting to millions of people) but continues unstoppable, prompted by the need to generate, not food, but economic growth. Thus, in many Southern countries the agriculture of the agrobusiness has been established where only import the volumes of production without measuring the consequences: the increase of the zones of based on cultivation deforestation, the disappearance of many jobs, an agriculture petrodependent jointly responsible of the climatic change, concentration of lands and incomes, loss of biodiversity and more.