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eppur_se_muova

(36,269 posts) Sat Feb 16, 2013, 07:11 PM Feb 2013

Brazil's Marina Silva launches 'sustainability party' (BBC)

In Brazil, a former presidential candidate and environment minister has launched a new political party, Sustainability Network, ahead of next year's presidential elections.

In a speech to hundreds of supporters in the capital, Brasilia, Marina Silva stressed the party's green credentials.

According to Brazilian law, nearly 500,000 signatures are needed to officially register a party.

Ms Silva came third with nearly 20m votes in her 2010 presidential bid.

Launching the new party, Marina Silva ruled out taking either a pro or anti-government stance.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21487993

Organizing a political party around a principle -- what an idea !

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All successful political parties are organized around a principle. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #1

GliderGuider

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1. All successful political parties are organized around a principle.

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Sat Feb 16, 2013, 09:22 PM

Feb 2013

The principle can be simply stated as, "Don't crash the growth bus."

Parties organized around other principles have no chance of success in this current cycle of civilization

If she means "true sustainability" instead of some "sustainable growth" flim-flam, she will never get close to the levers of power. Since true sustainability requires a a planet with no more than a billion people on it, with an average standard of living no higher than modern Bolivia, she is either lying in her use of the word or her cause is hopeless.

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