​Mothiur Rahman

The standard method to oppose destructive development is to engage with the regulatory law and try to find legal flaws in the documentation or procedures (such as the consultation process or Environmental Impact Report).  This might win a battle but it does not win the war as the developer usually just comes back after fixing the flaws, leading to exhaustion in a community.   Regulatory law is about legalising harms, or regulating the destruction of nature. The current system is not about preventing harms in the first place.  

 

We need to find a new, life-generating story of our relationship to each other and our planet, to help create a narrative for an economy that returns back to its root meaning (Oikos = home, Nomia = management).  

 

The tools described on the following sub-pages are to help generate this story, to bring back attention to that which matters - finding right relationship between all our communities (human, ecological and organisational).