The Converging World Group has a number of visions:
To support existing campaigns and initiatives for social justice and development – like Make Poverty History and direct, local efforts in the Chew Valley to alleviate poverty and improve healthcare in the ‘South’.
To develop personal links between the Go Zero communities and Social Change and Development (SCAD) in Tamil Nadu.
To promote ecotourism and sustainable travel.
To promote and encouraging fair trade – obtaining FairTrade Village status.
The Converging World is now a new charity based in Bristol but with world wide ambitions!
To support it please visit www.theconvergingworld.org.
What does “Converging World” mean?
The Converging World concept is large and complex. The converging aspect derives partly from the ‘Contraction & Convergence’ principle proposed by Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute (see Schumacher Briefing No 5), which sees, across the world, an equal per capita right to emit ‘carbon’.
The Converging World idea goes beyond carbon trading, although this is a fundamental aspect requiring emergency attention. It is a vision of a world where everyone has a fair and equal share of all the resources that the Earth can easily provide without jeopardising its potential to support life in all its diversity. It is also a world where everyone has a fair and equal share of, and access to, human created resources such as knowledge. The vision extends to an indiscriminate right, and equal access, to the functions of our institutions for justice, health, education and security. In this converging worldview environmental issues are inseparable from social justice.