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Alternative Radio for January 29, 2007
1:02 PM - 2:00 PM
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Today's Highlight: "From Empire to Earth Community," with David Korten
From the beginning of the United States the prevailing ethic was not to accommodate but to dominate. Indians were called “merciless savages” in the Declaration of Independence. They would be wiped out in great numbers and their culture destroyed. Nature was seen as wild and warranted conquest. Patterns of over-consumption and environmental degradation continue today. The U.S. has a huge war-making capacity which is linked to its rapacious appetite for resources inconveniently located in other countries. With less than 5% of world’s population, the U.S. uses about 30% of the planet’s resources. That equation is a prescription for conflict and disaster. Will we turn from empire to earth community and secure a sane and stable future or will we destroy our host like a cancer metastasizing?
David Korten was an insider in the development establishment for about thirty years. He worked for the Ford Foundation and USAID. Having severed his ties to the past, today he is president of the People-Centered Development Forum and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes "Yes!" magazine. He is the author of “When Corporations Rule the World” and “The Post-Corporate World:
Life After Capitalism.” His latest book is “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International.
Established in 1986, AR is dedicated to the founding principles of public broadcasting, which urge that programming serve as "a forum for controversy and debate," be diverse and "provide a voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard." The project is entirely independent, sustained solely by individuals who buy transcripts and tapes of programs.
Its "headquarters" is situated to correspond with its position in the mainstream mass media: down an alley, behind a house, on top of a garage in Boulder, Colorado. From this rarefied location, AR's programs manage to reach over 125 radio stations and millions of listeners. AR is part of the non-profit Institute for Social and Cultural Change.
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