Five Point Plan: To free the world of unsustainable living
1. Each community must create its own local currency and destroy the current one. (Refer to previous post) This will take away a great deal of authority including legal/official authority from the government (at least the federal government). All of the land must be made public so that anyone can work in a community space to grow food, for example.
2. Every space that is needed and is usable must be utilized for the purposes of vegetation. Rip up the pavement in the cities, wouldn’t most living beings rather thrive even on what is now sand underneath most of the pavement. As for places in suburbia they will most likely have enough soil area for the needed gardens. In this case if you don’t own cattle and such farm animals rip out the grass on your lawns. Though the pavement in suburbia should also be torn apart symbolically, no one ever steps foot on it anyway. In addition production of products such as weed eliminators must be stopped. Their existence and use only cultivates (ironic, huh?) a sick and destructive culture. There is an elaborate business of gardening and lawns and to maintain the desired aesthetics (since this is its fundamental and only purpose) you spray chemicals all over your lawn and pathways. This is fitting to the rest of your suburban life style since your children play in the house.
3. All highways, especially interstate highways, must be converted into bike paths. Only transportation of vital goods may be made if they are needed but unavailable locally. Such as medicine. This demand must be made clear, since water is vital to life; but if you are living in the desert, which is clearly an area in which nature did not intend man to live sustain ably, then you must move to a place with fertile soil and fresh water. Water will NOT be transported from Colorado so that people in Los Angeles can survive.
4. Through civil discourse sparked by a changed entertainment system and religious system the fundamental/ mainstream culture will change. All corporate institutions must be dismantled; the economic profit motive must be diminished. This will limit the amount of unfairness that is bound to occur, due to many forms of discrimination; also there will be less conflicts of interest. The survival of the fittest mentality will only benefit as small group of people, the upper class. Therefore the best way (as seen in the Cuba example) for the masses to survive peak oil is to work together. People must share and work together, and this must become tradition. With such a slogan as “Gardeners of the World Unite!”- Running the risk of negative connotations to most. [Note: I am aware that this will probably be the most difficult point to accomplish, but I am hopeful that the next two generations-including the young and still impressionable of today- will survive and therefore have a chance to be taught a better (sustainable and happier) way of life.]
5. Take advantage of solar and hydrogen based energy sources. Even though the need for fuels will drastically decrease there will still be some exceptions. For example in places with cold winters you will have to stay warm in order to survive and water will still need to be heated so that it can be used to maintain good hygiene. Also fuel will be needed to power hospitals and pharmaceutical/ research centers. It is true that we must change civilization because it is unsustainable, but it seems a shame to forget all of the advances science and technology has made.
The most likely plan to succeed will probably be one that involves a combination of mitigating the effects of peak-oil and not only renovating but also drastically changing society to adapt to a life with out fossil fuels. Solving our core problem will take a combination in which there will be more change than mitigation. Since the most common use of this word in terms of peak oil implies relieving the problem by replacing oil with alternative fuels so that there would not be a drastic change in the West’s and other industrialized countries life style.
1. Each community must create its own local currency and destroy the current one. (Refer to previous post) This will take away a great deal of authority including legal/official authority from the government (at least the federal government). All of the land must be made public so that anyone can work in a community space to grow food, for example.
2. Every space that is needed and is usable must be utilized for the purposes of vegetation. Rip up the pavement in the cities, wouldn’t most living beings rather thrive even on what is now sand underneath most of the pavement. As for places in suburbia they will most likely have enough soil area for the needed gardens. In this case if you don’t own cattle and such farm animals rip out the grass on your lawns. Though the pavement in suburbia should also be torn apart symbolically, no one ever steps foot on it anyway. In addition production of products such as weed eliminators must be stopped. Their existence and use only cultivates (ironic, huh?) a sick and destructive culture. There is an elaborate business of gardening and lawns and to maintain the desired aesthetics (since this is its fundamental and only purpose) you spray chemicals all over your lawn and pathways. This is fitting to the rest of your suburban life style since your children play in the house.
3. All highways, especially interstate highways, must be converted into bike paths. Only transportation of vital goods may be made if they are needed but unavailable locally. Such as medicine. This demand must be made clear, since water is vital to life; but if you are living in the desert, which is clearly an area in which nature did not intend man to live sustain ably, then you must move to a place with fertile soil and fresh water. Water will NOT be transported from Colorado so that people in Los Angeles can survive.
4. Through civil discourse sparked by a changed entertainment system and religious system the fundamental/ mainstream culture will change. All corporate institutions must be dismantled; the economic profit motive must be diminished. This will limit the amount of unfairness that is bound to occur, due to many forms of discrimination; also there will be less conflicts of interest. The survival of the fittest mentality will only benefit as small group of people, the upper class. Therefore the best way (as seen in the Cuba example) for the masses to survive peak oil is to work together. People must share and work together, and this must become tradition. With such a slogan as “Gardeners of the World Unite!”- Running the risk of negative connotations to most. [Note: I am aware that this will probably be the most difficult point to accomplish, but I am hopeful that the next two generations-including the young and still impressionable of today- will survive and therefore have a chance to be taught a better (sustainable and happier) way of life.]
5. Take advantage of solar and hydrogen based energy sources. Even though the need for fuels will drastically decrease there will still be some exceptions. For example in places with cold winters you will have to stay warm in order to survive and water will still need to be heated so that it can be used to maintain good hygiene. Also fuel will be needed to power hospitals and pharmaceutical/ research centers. It is true that we must change civilization because it is unsustainable, but it seems a shame to forget all of the advances science and technology has made.
The most likely plan to succeed will probably be one that involves a combination of mitigating the effects of peak-oil and not only renovating but also drastically changing society to adapt to a life with out fossil fuels. Solving our core problem will take a combination in which there will be more change than mitigation. Since the most common use of this word in terms of peak oil implies relieving the problem by replacing oil with alternative fuels so that there would not be a drastic change in the West’s and other industrialized countries life style.
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