{"id":2734,"date":"2011-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/david-ford-independent-new-zealand-political-candidate\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:49","slug":"david-ford-independent-new-zealand-political-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/david-ford-independent-new-zealand-political-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ford ~ Independent New Zealand Political Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"
So why would a male in his late fifties want to drop everything and spend time canvassing his electorate with a message on conservation based community issues, simplicity, local, personal, organic and living healthy holistic lifestyle at optimal performance.<\/p>\n
TURNING OUR ECONOMY AROUND and Eliminating Debt.<\/p>\n
He believes the blind spot in our current Government industry leadership thinking lies in a irrational adherence to the Northern Hemispheres gospel of BIG that this now dysfunctional hallucination has lead us into the current global economic\/ecological crisis. A Crisis we will NOT emerge from by playing out the same old tired formulas prescriptions.<\/p>\n
It is time we all let go of this collective hallucination boldly embrace a new paradigm which insures secures an intact future for all.<\/p>\n Covering education, health, environment and justice, this is now a time for the conversation to extend beyond party politics to our kitchen tables and living rooms.<\/p>\n Expanding our health and wellbeing into the local community and eventually the biosphere as a whole. When we look at the microcosm us, in relation to the macrocosm of our planet, the only difference in many ways is a matter of scale. We can not afford to abuse our ecology, be it internal or external.<\/p>\n And that it is intergenerational injustice to future generations if we are not conserving all resources. What are we leaving our children and grand children?<\/p>\n What are the drivers that compel this man?<\/p>\n