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Yeah, to make it even worse, try to get them to co-operate with "you".
:-)
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Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Coming
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I don't disagree with you, but I would say that
developing "communities" is probably one of the harder tasks, given where we
are now. Co-operating with others is hard work.
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:27
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Subject: [Livingontheland] The Coming
of Deindustrial Society: A PracticalResponse
The Coming of Deindustrial Society: A Practical
Response http://www.oilcrisis.com/whatToDo/DeindustrialAge.htm
excerpts
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key to making sense of constructive action in a situation of impending
industrial collapse is to look at the community, rather than the
individual or society as a whole, as the basic unit. We know from
history that local communities can continue to flourish while empires
fall around them. ...............
An astonishing number of people,
especially in the educated middle class, have no practical skills
whatsoever when it comes to growing and preparing food, making clothing,
and providing other basic necessities. An equally astonishing number are
unable to go any distance at all by any means that doesn't involve
burning fossil fuels - and almost no one in the developed world can
light a fire without matches or a lighter from some distant factory.
Survival skills such as organic gardening, low-tech medicine, basic hand
crafts, and the like need to be learned and practiced now, while
there's time to do so. ..........
The good news is that this
framework already exists; it's called the farmers market movement. The
last two decades have seen an astonishing growth in farmers markets
across the country - the latest figures I've seen, and they're some
years out of date, indicate that farmers markets are a $16 billion a
year industry, with most of that money going to small local farmers. I
personally know organic farmers who are able to stay in business, and
support their families on quite small acreages, because they work the
farmers markets. Every dollar spent on locally grown produce from a
farmers market, instead of supermarket fare shipped halfway around the
world, is thus an investment in local sustainability and
survival.
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