Wednesday, June 14, 2023

How To Make A Difference

Here is some good advice from Charles Hugh Smith:

To really reduce one's consumption of the planet's resources, we would have to grow our own food, get around on our own feet or zero-fuel transport (motorless bicycle or skateboard or boat) and not buy / own / use large resource-consuming devices such as vehicles, aircraft, etc.

The system as currently configured makes it nearly impossible to do this. Even growing much of your own food requires delivery of fertilizers (organic or chemical, they still weight a lot). Very few places are bike-skateboard friendly. The world is set up for large, mass-produced fueled vehicles. Outside of a few cities, public transport is incapable of getting people where they need to go in any sort of time-efficient manner.

Source - http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/06/this-is-why-nobody-will-do-anything.html

Any takers?

Update - 6/15/2023

Upon reflection, the above kinda sounds like Ted Kaczynski:

He lived in a cabin near Lincoln, Montana, a place in every sense off the grid: no electricity, no television, no telephone. He moved about with a bicycle. He took an interest in regeneration in nature. He even foraged. This was his way of romancing the notion of the “pre-industrial city”, as he termed it, where the “19th century frontiersman” could create “change himself, by his own choice.”

Source - https://www.globalresearch.ca/never-more-relevant-ted-kaczynski-technology-trauma/5822359

The lesson here is that all this could be achieved without violence, as long as TPTB didn't resort to it to bring us back to the fold.

What's the chance of that happening?

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