NP - Toryism (Austerity) Isn't Working.

[Joseph Tracy]

We have a local transitions movement ,  still fragile but several of our events take place at or are sponsored by Williams College and it is good to see how many students are interested.  There is also a group in the region called northeastern permaculture  which is a web list for the growing interest in local permaculture design.   The gaia mind is  rich and available and real.    
On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns
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> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> I doubt we have yet entered the winter of global capitalism; so far we have just seen the big hole where the golden fang will be buried.. By the way I personally am ok with any system* that is ecologically sustainable and reasonably fair/just non-exploitive. That fair thing is really not just a moral issue, it's practical, humans evolved for millennia with sensible communal instincts.  The  current model of extractive growth and domination by military/economic exploitation has major problems and can only continue via a gruesome high tech feudalism.  That's the mindset of the US government , but such arrangements are clearly not viable at this time as Afghanistan, Vietnam, South America  Europe all show.    The corrupt america-modeled military-backed multi-national empire has to be cut down to size.  Reform does not look promising.   These big centralized bureaucracies will either make the planet uninhabitable or be replaced by smaller units of coherent culture, geography, and economic vitality.
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> Where will the big changes come from? Violent  weather, eco-disasters, resistance to the hegemony of the dollar,  rising oceans, margin calls,  democracy and human rights movements, cost of energy, national bankruptcies, huge numbers of unemployed, resource battles( water, metals, rare earths, land, housing), tax resistance and more extreme actions.
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> *(Paul Hawkin and Amory Lovins , borrowing heavily from Bill Mcdonough wrote an interesting book called natural capitalism that proposed a system which integrates principles of sustainability and eco-harmony with capitalism.They make a case for how it could work but the momentum of the existing system is not based on  rational decision making and there is no political interest in a harmonious balanced  long term economic system. )
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> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant