Environment

We believe that in order for humans to exist without destroying their environment, it must be placed on equal footing with humans. For this reason our goals regarding the environment are to decrease the human land-use footprint, decrease our use of resources and reprocess our waste so that we do not introduce it to the environment. These are simple goals with complex implications.

There must be another factor other than profit-motive.

When our guiding principle is profit, nature and our own integrity take second place and are pushed aside by the need to use more, sell more, and buy more. The Integralist Party returns leadership to the culture and people, and relegates money to its role as a mechanism for achieving those ends. Land use should be a question of a logical use of the land to benefit the society as a whole, not solely where profit can be made from another fast-food restaurant or discount clothes store. Further, without excessive profit motive, we would implement laws and policies where British made products will be designed to last longer, greener and thus produce less eventual waste.
 
The Integralist Party would act quickly and decisively on environmental issues.

No democracy will act to offend its citizens, who for the most part are composed of people who see only their own lives and, being unable to balance their decision-making (most can barely handle themselves), will act for themselves first and by that decision, exclude the collective and our environment from the equation. Further, the powers that be move slowly because they are forced to state every decision in terms of the lowest common denominator, increasing steadily and slowly changes which are as often as not reversed by the next elected official.

An  Integralist Party government would reverse both the selfish individualism that has gotten Britain into this state, and the domination by money of the government resulting from the tendency of the people to vote for what they think gives them the highest degree of individual income. Our political system will subsidise those who have need and are worthy, and we would guarantee a living for the average person so they are not forced into economic competition with others, and can focus on being better at their livelihood, at being friends and parents, and members of the community.

Our Nation must stop relying on exploiting existing resources.

We view our natural resources as products in a store: something we purchase, use, and discard. We simply find it, pay for it, and then consider the transaction over. A more sensible view is to see natural resources as an ongoing process, for example the forest that grows and produces timber: we can selectively take trees, but we cannot cut too many down, or the forest dies. Similarly we must view our food sources such as fish and game as living systems in their own right. The correct way to use these is not to exploit existing resources, but to determine what we need and cultivate independent systems for producing it in an ongoing and humane manner.

This also applies to the animals that are currently kept in tiny spaces, fed chemicals and the remains of their own kind, and used to generate vast profits. The industries and people who currently make their living from these tasks will continue to do so, but in a more logical fashion that is less destructive to the environment and to their personal spirit. What pride and self-respect is there in slaughtering caged animals with bolt-guns and electrocution ponds?

British Architecture must reflect the natural ideal and geographic location.

When we build square, un-stylish plastic and steel empires to replace the rolling and diverse natural landscape, we are stating as clearly as any philosophy or political propaganda that we are opposed to nature and want to assert our own deathless order in response. This is not only a fantasy, but also cultivates in us an alienation from nature, such that we fear dirt and defecation and death and cannot deal with them on a psychological level. Any future civilisation must have architecture that emphasizes the diversity and structural beauty of nature, and must integrate its dwellings and offices and shops with truly natural space, instead of a few planted trees surrounded by miles of concrete, glass, plastic and metal.