Subject: Re: [Homestead] McKibben et al, was Do you have your affairs in order?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:47:41 -0400
<<Maybe someone can send the current folks running for prez a copy of
the
book. The latest this morning was a promise of $1.5 Billion a year for
encouraging "green" cars. The folks pushing these electric cars
never cease
to amaze me. Ah, what are they going to do with all the used
batteries AND
we really need a bigger draw on the electric producing capacity of this
country. Plus a promise of several hundred million for Michigan car
manufacturers.
Why don't they just change the name of the country to Chinaca and be
done
with it!
Lynda>>
Its a tough spot we're in, no doubt. The current paradigm of
perpetual growth is embedded in nearly everything we do- remove the
growth and the structures that mostly-western human culture has
erected over the last several hundred years collapse, and we can't
expect the master's tools to dismantle the master's house. The only
recourse I see on a personal level is to remove myself as much as
possible from the broader growth-obsessed economy, which neatly goes
hand in hand with the ethic of self-reliance and self-sufficiency of
homesteading. Change is going to have to come from the bottom up on
this one- those at the top have done very well under this system and
see little reason, and have little incentive, to change things beyond
putting on a shiny coat of 'green' paint. "Get rich while saving the
world!" Uh huh.