Geography To No Where
One of Jim Kunstler’s best books with deep insight into what a valued and valuable community would look like and how it would function.
We need to go centuries back and adopt the most simplistic and redundant systems that we know worked. Cisterns under the buildings. A garden and/or orchard in every front and back yard. Community Fields of Grains. Walkable communities. Extremely energy efficient dwellings under ground or under cob. Trades and industries further from town and away from treasured resources. Preferable near navigable rivers, ports, and RR stations, and defendable.
If only we could have an adult conversation about our energy predicament. We could have transitioned. We could have instituted public policies that promoted physical and mental wellness, strong characters, a multi-skilled work force, a moral population and a small carbon footprint that enhanced the quality of the public’s life.
But somebody thought it would be a good idea to go the complete opposite route.
Bummer.
Although I saw the bumper sticker “Collapse Now, Avoid the Rush” years ago, it still resonates with me today.
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