The Winchester Green Party Newsletter —  Issue 1, October 2009

The Winchester Green Party was formed in 2007. While we have published election campaign literature before, this is our first edition of a more general paper that will bring, not just news of what we are doing, but what we hope will be seen as thought-provoking comment.

We don’t have all the answers. There should be no debate now about the scale of the problem facing us, but there will be much disagreement about the effectiveness of solutions. This is matter that we can debate within these columns.

We hope through this means to raise an awareness of the issues, but also to encourage a belief that, despite the seemingly appalling future of the planet, here in Winchester we can do something that matters.

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What's the Problem?

The Green Party is literally about world problems. The Credit Crunch is a world problem that none of our supposedly expert and worldly-minded political parties or financial gurus saw coming. The Green Party did.

But it is not the only world problem, nor even the greatest one. None of the mainstream parties are paying attention to the other, much bigger impending Crunches - we are living beyond our means in so many ways and our credit is exhausted - the world is running out of oil, water, land and food. And the population of those who want to use what is left is growing.

All of the mainstream parties know this, but they pretend it is not true. They do nothing on the assumption that uninvented, magical technological bullets will solve all the problems. They stick to the absurd notion that there can be a 'sustainable growth' for ever.