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It was Rachel Carson in 1962 who, with her book ‘Silent Spring' sounded the first alarm that our environment is in danger. Only now, 40 years later, our governments are beginning to take serious notice. With the TD system in place, the message that our environment is threatened would have gone out much faster. The first activists would have had direct access to the TD MPs and to the public at large through the town hall meetings, phone-ins, i.e., the awareness of the public and the political will of the TD e-parliament would have been established much sooner. Instead, the money interests are still domineering today. Still, with our present political party systems, one day we have to bite the bullet, because the resources of mother nature are finite and more and more people [China, Africa among others] want to have their share. Today, this almost religious belief in ‘economic growth' has created a throw-away-society which cannot be maintained forever. One day we will have to switch to a survival society. This transition will be painful and it will cause lots of political upheaval because of the disconnect of the people from governments. The change from the throw-away-society to the survival-society will be peaceful with the TD system. The TD MPs have the overall picture of the situation and they have the trust of their constituents. Any necessary cutbacks will be accepted because the TD MP, living in the community, will explain everything in detail. Morever, the necessary sacrifices will be administered in a just way because in the TD system the bureaucracy is under control. We are drifting toward environmental disaster with the multiple party system because of the influence of commercial growth and money. Instead,
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