Quote Originally Posted by Williamsmith View Post
From the Charter of Sufficiency:

We affirm that property rights are justifiable only to the extent they serve the common good, including the overriding interests of humanitarian and ecological justice.

This is entirely offensive to the foundational principles of the Constituion of the United States. Property rights are equal in importance individually as personal human rights. The founding fathers held the defense of property rights as essential to the establishment of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This is the reason for their response to taxation without representation. Government often first targets property rights through various means as punishments or ways to invalidate individual freedoms. Property rights are not only a first line of defense against abuses but they enable the other rights to follow. It is the essence of the revolution that a citizen could remain on his own land and protect it from richer men. Property ensured power to any citizen and is the conduit by which self reliance and self government flows.

As a result I see the simplicity movement as vulnerable and unsustainable if it gives up these certain rights...property among them.

additionally, ideas of "degrowth and a steady state economic model". go hand in hand with efforts driving acceptance of the climate change wealth redistribution scheme. The fundamental flaw being global governmental meetings are an attempt to force change from the top down and not from bottom up grassroots individual consciousness. As such it will never work and will undoubtedly fuel aggression and violence as a response.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I can't envision the commissariat wise and fair enough to set up as arbiter of "the common good" or "ecological justice" in determining the extent to which my rights are "justified".