Jeff, I appreciate your speculation that, "Mostly it just struggles with individual problems and the basic culture remains unchanged." This is what I intended to change with Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: www.steadystate.org Brian Czech On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:12:24 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff owens) writes: > Richard wrote: > >I do enjoy the ideas around sustainable living, because they > provide a > >constructive path for withdrawing energies from that world of > politics, and > >destruction to investing it more locally. It enables me or you to > do > >something of a healing nature for ourselves and the planet. > > Yes, i think this approach has two benefits: > 1. It provides a path for enjoying life. > 2. It produces results directly. (no political promises or > laws or organizations that can fail). > > The most popular approach today seem to be activism and > momentary supporters. We tend to write checks to our favorite > cause and then feel good about doing something. The problem > with this approach is it does not build lasting cultural > solutions. Mostly it just struggles with individual problems > and the basic culture remains unchanged. This doesn't mean > we don't need "causes", just that we need a balance of people > living the answers and those struggling with the problems. > Today we seem to be out of balance. More check writers than > ecopath's. > > jeff Brian Czech Arlington, VA USA
