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
