EH Bildu claims “another way of being in the world” to deal with climate change

Euskaraz irakurri: EH Bilduk “munduan egoteko beste modu bat” defendatu du klima aldaketari aurre egiteko

EH Bildu has presented today, in an act that took place in the Euskaduna Palace in Bilbao, an energy strategy for Hego Euskal Herria.

The coalition has highlighted that “we are in a historical context of ecological-climatic emergency and energy crisis, where Hego Euskal Herria is in a situation of high vulnerability. The problem is of a colossal dimension; a problem that we are obliged to understand as a great challenge to be able to turn it into an opportunity for comprehensive transformation”.

In the act, in which the general coordinator, Arnaldo Otegi; the program director, Pello Otxandiano and the energy transition secretary, Mikel Otero, EH Bildu stressed that “the energy transition must be the lever for an eco-social transformation that leads us to other modes of production and consumptionwhich, in turn, is not possible without conceiving a cultural change: another way of being in the world”.

In addition to the objective of facing the challenge of climate change, EH Bildu seeks with the strategy presented today “higher levels of sovereignty for the country. In other words, to territorialize our energy consumption, take charge of our consumption and, therefore, analyze how we can generate energy in our own territory in order to achieve a high degree of self-sufficiency; and in turn, democratize the means of production”.

The document presented today, admits EH Bildu, “is not energy planning”, but rather “the guides of what the energy transition in Euskal Herria understands should be; a political orientation and the strategic foundations on which to build the regulations, the planning and the necessary sectoral strategies from now on”.

Between the “fundamental principles” that support the strategy, is that “there is no other option” than to face climate change, the vulnerability of the current energy framework, energy sovereignty, the change in consumption habits, self-sufficiency, the exploitation of 100 % renewables, the collective management of needs, the public promotion of these policies, the democratization of the energy sector and that the common interest prevail above all.

“Values ​​Revolution”

In this sense, Otegi has defended the need to start a “revolution of values” to face climate change and the energy crisis with solutions “Basque style, defending a community model”.

The general coordinator of the coalition has said that it is necessary to “turn around certain values ​​that have spread throughout the planet, and that have become very strong in all opulent Western societies.”

“We cannot face the energy crisis and the climate crisis if we do not imagine the world and Euskal Herria in another way”, he reflected, while stating that EH Bildu will defend that it be “a community model, that is done together and that the interests of this country be defended”.

This change in values ​​would place Euskal Herria “at the forefront” and would make the Basques “more supportive, more internationalist and probably happier,” he said.