80 comments on Localism and some thoughts on Social Change
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Well, I can't reply to everything at the moment, so I'll take a chunk a time.
I never watched Bladerunner :-( , so I don't know which images are passing through your head.
"Are you by chance some perverse mutation of the "constant gardener"?"
Again, I'm not sure of your reference, found le Carre's book/movie with the same name, but is there something else behind it? (I'm beginning to feel pretty illiterate, or at least media-illiterate)
My point is, if you want to change the way we use (i.e. "exploit":-) our resources, you also need to change the way things work.
"Localizing" is a nice title, but it does not change the biggest problem:
MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS PLAYING BY THE "NEW" RULES TOO.
If "growth" is going to be reversed or channelled, then we have to make major, major changes on the free-market system, on the present world socio-economic-political system.
How do you do this? By taking away everyone's rights.
- Individuals need to be revoked of the right to consume at will (my example was the right of building anywhere, which is especially a US problem)
- Corporations need to loose the right to expand/operate at will in unregulated regions (moving offshore AND exploiting resources of 3rd World..)
- Nation/States have to be revoked the right to pass or not pass laws at will. Who's going to force the US to ratify Kyoto? Who's going ot enforce world wide laws??
The free market has its advantages. It however MUST be heavily, heavily regulated - which, on the global level, it is not at all presently...
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My grandfather pumped oil with an engine-house,
my father pumped oil with a 20 lb. electric motor,
can't I just pump it online?
Or as Luis put it:
"Is in fact Sustainability self-evident on a local scale?
...
What stops me from sending my waste downstream? It’ll disappear from my local environment, why bother further?"
The movie "Bladerunner" is probably Harrison Ford's best early work. It was based on the SciFi Novella "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", written by Phillip Dick and also wonderful.
The concept of economic sanctions could be used against the US. The Bush administration is the most dangerous government in the world and the European Union and other civilized nations should have banned imports from the US long ago. That they haven't means the Europeans actually approve of the US's use of military power in poor Asian countries and its flaunting of Kyoto and other international laws such as kidnapping "terrorists" from their homelands and imprisoning them at Gitmo and other secret prisons.