Liveable Futures Alliance (LFA)

Livable Futures Treaty (LFT)

www.liveablefuture.org

Based on the Open Letter to major environmental NGOs and its 30 signatory organizations, promoted by Indignant Rebels and the Metabody Institute, the Livable Futures Alliance proposes a real alternative to the denialism and disinformation promoted by most of current activism.

Contact: rebeldesindigndas@gmail.eu

Declaration of Principles 3D/3R

The Livable Futures Alliance (LFA) coordinates local, national, and international eco-socio-animal movements and initiatives dedicated to denouncing and countering the disinformation and denialism prevalent in current eco-socio-animal movements regarding the main responses to the greatest crisis in history (the climate-ecological-social-animal emergency): the transition to plant-based diets and deep degrowth. The network also aims to be a space for exchange, not only for critique and resistance but also for alternative proposals for deep change, for a livable future.

The Alliance adopts the VegAnarQueer principles of deep change and deep intersectionality, which involves dismantling the fragmentation of eco-socio-animal movements, stating that:

Firstly, it is urgent to recognize the radical nature of the crisis: anyone who studies with some seriousness the issues summarized in climate and biodiversity reports from the UN and other organizations can understand that the current trend is leading us, during this century, to a scenario incompatible with human life and the lives of millions of other species. Furthermore, there is the expected collapse of industrial-digital civilization due to resource scarcity and the impossibility of sustaining it. This trend is only accelerating now, even more than feared.

Secondly, it is urgent to recognize the deep historical roots of this crisis, which are deeper and older than capitalism and are rooted in the Neolithic period, sedentary lifestyles, and the systemic exploitation of humans, other animals, and plants, in the name of homogeneous accumulation systems and fragmentation of the Biosphere that gave rise to property and all inequalities, although with even earlier roots in the first mass extinctions caused by overhunting in the Upper Paleolithic. It is not a matter of imitating the past but of learning from it and avoiding its mistakes.

Thirdly, it is urgent to recognize the necessary responses, which we summarize in three points, and present in order of priority according to their potential short-, medium-, and longterm impact on the crisis: a 3D strategy: diets, degrowth, and demography:

The transition to plant-based diets and agri-food systems without animal exploitation: as hundreds of institutional reports affirm, the animal-based food industry emits more greenhouse gases than global transportation, is the main cause of the destruction of forests and oceans and therefore carbon sinks, the latter being the main solution to climate collapse, in addition to being a planetary holocaust in which billions of sentient beings die every day after a hellish life, and is the main source of human health problems, inequality, and food and water insecurity. This transition must be demanded of governments with the utmost urgency. This could be achieved by activating it without delay through individual and collective action. For this to happen, it is imperative that activism itself—and the media—stop silencing its relevance and stop spreading misinformation about it. This is the most urgent and easiest measure to implement, yet it is avoided and silenced even within the environmental movement itself, due to the prevailing human supremacism and the omnipresent livestock and food lobby that defends aberrations such as the supposed sustainability of extensive livestock farming.
Deep degrowth, towards better lives for humans and non-humans with less dependence on toxic technological systems of alienation, exploitation, and accumulation, and on an economy of infinite growth that is completely unsustainable and has been recognized as such since 1972; this implies radically reducing consumption, production, extraction, and waste in all aspects of life (household goods and technology, mobility, housing, energy, etc.), also as only realistic way to end fossil fuels, towards minimalist lifestyles in terms of material consumption but more enriching at the community and experiential level, learning from indigenous ways of life, especially from nomadic gatherers, with anarchoprimitivist and degrowth ontologies and worldviews that are neither anthropocentric nor Eurocentric, towards a decolonization of the Earth.
As part of Deep Degrowth, it is urgent to address the Demographic taboo of overpopulation, which serves only growth economy, is radically unsustainable, and leads us to collective suicide. This must be done by activating a radically democratic public debate based on dismantling the oppressive reproductive heteropatriarchy and heteronormativity and promoting sexual and affective diversity, kinship diversity, and women’s empowerment, with a queer, transfeminist, antiracist, anti-ableist, and intersectional approach to voluntary antinatalism, starting with and from richer countries and populations.

Not all of “humanity” is equally responsible, although all of it, except perhaps some nomadic communities that do not exploit plants and other animals, participates in the system of extinction and exploitation—a system that often imposes itself, eliminating alternatives that actually exist.

We advocate for bottom up collective initiatives, denouncing and demanding action from institutions, but without waiting for them to act, mobilizing alternatives ourselves, starting by dismantling and counteracting the disinformation spread within ecosocial activism itself.

The Alliance also proposes a 3R strategy: reinvention, resistance, and regeneration.

Reinvention: internal critique, because if denialism prevails within the movements themselves, we can expect no change for better.
Resistance: systemic critique of the criminal (in)action of states at the service of lobbies.
Regeneration: bottom up mobilization of alternatives (without waiting for any state to come to our aid).

Treaty and Campaigns

The Alliance promotes a Livable Futures Treaty (LFT) based on the aforementioned 3R/3D principles: an international proposal that addresses what is lacking in other similar initiatives such as the Plant Based Treaty or the Fossil Fuel Treaty.

To this end, the Alliance promotes, among other things:

The “Don’t Choose Extinction” Campaign, to be spread first of all among all eco-social-animal and degrowth activist groups, as well as institutions, media , lobbies, and the general public. This includes:
- An Open Letter to major environmental, eco-social, and degrowth NGOs.
- A Campaign to Denounce Disinformation in the Media, a Campaign to denounce False Publicity and other criminal corporate activities, and a Campaign to denounce the crimes of States that promote industries leading us to the abyss, serving the interests of large corporations, spreading disinformation, and silencing the harm they cause to human and planetary health and the suffering of other animals.

Participating entities:

If you wish to become part of the Alliance please write to: rebeldesindigndas@gmail.com