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PACIFIC GREEN PARTY OF OREGON PRESS RELEASE Contacts: Joanne Cvar, Co-Chair and Media
Coordinator, 541-563-3615 cvar@oregonvos.net Greens honor sustainability "It is
our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to
those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went
before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours." On Earth Day 2004, members of the Pacific Green Party of Oregon took time to reflect on the meaning and importance of the concept of sustainability, one of our Ten Key Values which has inexplicably come under recent attack. To sustain means, among other things, to nurture, to supply with the necessities of life on a continuing basis. So what would be the opposite of sustainability? Scientists have been telling us for years that we are in danger of finding out in our own lifetimes. And the changes we are already witnessing are global in scale-including global warming, loss of biodiversity, and widening of the ozone hole. In Oregon, the Pacific Green Party supports sustainability through maintaining and improving the quality of life for our communities, our families, and ourselves. We support small business and the creation of a locally integrated, self-reliant economy with sustainable job creation. To this end, we seek to shift our economic orientation away from unsustainable increases in rates of consumption. We also work to establish an ecologically sound agriculture that maximizes regional self-reliance and supports family farm communities. On the international level, members of the Green Party believe that foreign policy should be founded on peace with justice, stability, human rights, democratic government, ecological wisdom, sustainable global economic development, and the elimination of poverty. In order to accomplish these goals, we seek to establish measures of ecological health on the local, regional, and global scales, to distribute this information widely, and to use it to guide policy formation, legislation, regulation, and enforcement. Understanding the looming threats to society and our planet will require global cooperation. We the People have the power. We just need adequate information and the will to act on it. Who would want to see the end of the very necessities of life? If honoring and saving life is labeled by some as extremism, so be it.
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