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11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis

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1. What if women -- the majority of the world's farmers -- could resist the commercialization of agriculture and strengthen food-centered economies?

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2. What if poor rural families were given land so that they could grow their own food?

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3. What if Indigenous Peoples' collective rights were recognized, ending the attack on those who have managed and maintained the world's most delicate ecosystems for millennia?

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4. What if economic policies recognized that preserving the environment was more important than obtaining fossil fuels?

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5. What if governments valued people's happiness over economic growth?

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6. What if genuine democracy -- the precondition for policies that benefit people over profits -- were to flourish?

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7. What if we could redress the forced impoverishment of the Global South?

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8. What if climate change could be stopped?

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9. What if governments realized that striving for limitless economic growth is not a solution, but a cause of poverty and ecological collapse?

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10. What if we saw the need to de-industrialize our societies as an opportunity, not a crisis?

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11. What if a critical mass of people the world over realized the need for urgent action?

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