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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	1102
Proposal	2022 Platform Amendment: Chapter III, Introduction
Presenter	Platform Committee Sponsor: Wisconsin Green Party
Floor Manager	Margaret Elisabeth
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	09-05-2022 - 10-02-2022
Voting	10-03-2022 - 10-09-2022
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

The existing statement “We support planetary efforts to slow the ever-increasing numbers of humans pressuring the ecosystems” could be misunderstood by potential supporters and twisted by detractors as expressing support by the US Green Party for top-down population control, particularly on a planetary or global scale, ie. in other countries. Such a statement can raise red flags among those who are conscious of the history of imperialism, colonialism, and eugenics, and historical attempts particularly by European settler civilizations to reduce the populations of groups seen as the “other” based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, etc. For this reason, any policies regarding population should be specific rather than ambiguous to prevent such misinterpretations from damaging the Green Party’s reputation.

The proposed replacement text “We support planetary efforts to reverse ever-increasing human pressures on ecosystems” mitigates this danger and recognizes that the problem for ecological sustainability is not the number of humans per se, but the pressures that humans place on ecosystems.

Proposal

Amend Chapter III. Ecological Sustainability, Introduction, to replace paragraph four which currently reads:

"We support planetary efforts to slow the ever-increasing numbers of humans pressuring the ecosystems, and we especially support the reduction of consumption of the world’s raw materials by the industrialized Northern Hemisphere."

with the following text:

"We support planetary efforts to reverse ever-increasing human pressures on ecosystems, and we especially support the reduction of consumption of the world’s raw materials by the industrialized Northern Hemisphere."

Resources

Approval of this proposal will amend the 2020 GPUS Platform.

Contacts:

Wisconsin Green Party Co chairs:
Dave Schwab, david.c.schwab@gmail.com
Jo’ Nathan Kingfisher, zkingfisherbird@gmail.com

References

This proposal is also available for comment at: https://gpus.org/other/platform-2017/2022-chapter-iii-ecological-sustainability-introduction/

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