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Corporate CaPitalism,/
Bioregional Model Industrial Growth
Scale: Region/CommunitY State/Nation/'Worid

Economy: Conservation/Restoration Exploitation

Stability/Evolution/Adaptation Growth/Progress
Local/Self-suffi ciencY Global/Specialization and Tiade
CooPeration PrimarY Competition PrimarY
Polity: Decentralization Centralization
ComPlementaritY/SubsidiaritY Hierarchy/Control
DiversitY/Consensus Uniformity/MajoritY Rule
ParticiPation/EmPowerment Domination/Control
Culture: Symbiosis Polarization
Evoh-rtion/Qualitative Growth Quantitative Growth/Violence
PluralitY/DiversitY Monoculture

to create false dichoto-

In considering this comparison, we must take care not
is the local community' that
mies. while the funclamental unit of the bioregion
systemic units are not important'
does not mean that larger, more encompassing
presumably, according to the principle of subsidiarity, larger interregional' as
(or similar) and international levels of orgamzation would still
well as national
beneeded,includingthoseworking"t*@l'Thekeyidea,though,is unit for making
that the bioregionai l.u.l becomes rn rna'ffiiflt6-primary of
said, we are also pafi a
decisions and organ tzingthe economy. That being
as climate change-affect
wider planetary .orn*.rnity and some issues-such
are actu-
us all and require coordinated actionfyslgtrg{.'1":"::'1""t
helpful n::-t-' *t must
ally imple-.rtt"d locally. The idea tf6-fls-caf{LlgCis
must the fundamental
think and act both locail V g@dfull ^"aindeedie
see
1' We should kuow our local reality and
the global reality and the
how best to act within it, but *. ur. also informed by
experiences of other regions' , .

Similarly, while goopera!,ion and symbiosis may be

primary values, competl-
tion will ulro.o-.Tffiy. Indeed, the principle of diversity would mean that
a wide variety of economic enterprises would
exist and these would inevitably
is indeed
compete
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with each other to some extent. As we have seen, competition
on wider scale cooperation and
a necessar y p^rtof a healthy ecosystem, but
a
also be reflected in our eco-
symbiosis are mofe important dynamics. This must
David Kg:99g; "commu-
nomic system-p.rhnp, drawing on the example of
nirv enterprise economy" consistin g of " a-a*t*r"ry tc,-6*GiA;tftv'
;;;i v' i t " p' i f -sryll*s e "ia:gp- 1,''{9Jke r ow n d
,fi iG-ffi{ie; r v, o f fam il s a
! - e

fir*i and neighbourhood nid mutii-ipal corporations" (1995, 3!2)'

Economics;SustainableCommunitgRootedinPlace
on values such as self-reli-
In a bioregional vision, economics must be centered
justice. The idea of an."economY--o"fe,nolg!]
ance, sustainability, equity,, and