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  • From: "Wim A. de Bruyn" <WdeBruyn@mail.dma.be>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Letter to Mr. Mandela
  • Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 16:55:52 -0100 (GMT)

Mr. N.R. Mandela
President of South Africa
Embassy of South Africa
rue de la Loi 26
1040 Brussels

To end apartheid in the economy in and among countries Brussels, November
17, 1998

Dear Mr. Mandela,

The current separation between rich and poor people and rich and poor
countries is maintained by consumers in their pursuit of the present goal
of development, which is to "CONSUME!" You can give development the goal :
to keep the integrity of human nature. People will then live in harmony
with nature. This way of living of the human species will sustain an
equilibrium in the well-being of all people. You can give this goal to
development by first demanding that all products in South Africa,
particularly those imported from the developed world, carry a label that
indicates the percentage of the price of a product that corresponds with
its costs of production with ecological goods and services.

Once it is known which percentage - I suspect more than 95% - of the costs
of production of the developed world sustain processes that are not in
harmony with Nature, that destroy this harmony, that destroy Nature, the
developed world will be willing to comply with your second demand : allow
consumers of the developed world to deduct from their taxable income, their
costs of living with ecological goods and services from South Africa. With
this accounting capacity to deduct, consumers will demand ecological goods
and services and thus manage their costs of living so as to live in harmony
with Nature. The theory that sustains this proposition is presented in
annex hereto : Scientific arguments for managing the costs of living in
order to maintain the integrity of human nature.

To satisfy the demand of consumers of the developed world for ecological
goods and services, the producers of South Africa will compete with each
other to produce ecologically. The research, development and operation of
an ecological industry will improve the standard of living in South Africa
and lead to an increase in demand for the goods and services of the
developed world. Developed world producers must increasingly introduce the
means to produce ecologically into their own production processes in order
to compete with producers of South Africa. It is likely that Heads of
State of ACP countries will make the same two demands, shortly afterwards.
Other countries may follow suit.

With your demand to know, you open a way of living for the consumers of the
world gradually to return to a way of living in harmony with Nature and
human nature. This way enables everyone to keep one's integrity with one's
income. You put an end to slavery by ending the obligation to render,
unconditionally, fruits of labour to an authority. This end will enable an
harmonious equilibrium between the vital energy of the consumer and the
force of the state. This equilibrium between Yin and Yang implies a global
society without war.

Would you be good to have this percentage label made into a legal
requirement? I am offering to help develop an ecological industry in South
Africa that will be the driving force behind an ethical and human
development which will progress through the African continent and cover the
planet. I am campaigning for the wide acceptance of the management of the
costs of living at the ZERO web site. I have posted this letter there and
I should like to post your reply there as well.

With sincerity and its feelings,

As annex : "Scientific arguments for managing the costs of living in order
to maintain the integrity of human nature"


With sincerity and its feelings,

Wim A. de Bruyn
Founder
ZERO, association of consumers keeping their integrity with their income
45 rue Alfred Giron
B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel. : **32 (2) 648 56 95
e-mail : WdeBruyn@mail.dma.be
ZERO web site : http://freezone.exmachina.net/ZERO






  • Letter to Mr. Mandela, Wim A. de Bruyn, 11/26/1998

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