Change Everything

I'm a little cynical of the unbridled optimism of websites like Change Everything.ca, not least because it's sponsored by Vancity, but also becuase they just seem really self serving. "I want to run more". Who cares. Just run more. We don't need to be updated on your progress. Or maybe we do, I don't know. Maybe my pessimism is just too strong, afterall, there a couple of really good ideas on there. For example, creating a community farm in the Westend of Vancouver. I've always wanted to do that.

I guess I'd want to change the economy so that it incorporated all the externalities that autisitic economics omits and create a commons similar to the Green Party platform of Genuine Progress in which a trust would be created that included the sky, the soil, water, arts and culture that everyone would pay into. The individuals and corporations that benefited the commons would recieve a dividends check, the polluters would have to pay more. The economy is so broad and all encompassing that it includes the environment, arts, culture, politics, media anyways so...

I'd also like to change the media ownership laws in Canada. And the electoral system. And the way we trade. The way we build our cities. I'd build more social housing and treatment facilities. i'd change the way we farm. I'd change our policy towards the occupation of Palestine. I'd tax fast food. I'd label genetically engineered food. I'd make post-secondary education free. I'd also make it so that stupidity was illegal.