Right. I don't know, either. What I can say is that there is now a ferment of activities like this seemingly inspired by a loss of confidence in big government solutions, economic distress, and the twin fears of peak oil and global warming. Many of them seem to be converging in terms of themes: anti-corporatist, anti-big government, anti-FED, favoring local community-based forms of governance and production, etc. (SimPol is something of an aberration in terms of the latter.)
One thing I wonder is how these approaches will reconcile themselves with the need to "scale up" as necessary for industrial production, R&D, etc., assuming we are still to enjoy the benefits of such things. Maybe a solution to the latter would be worker-owned production. There is a large worker-owned industrial company in Spain (whose name escapes me) that might be a possible model. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Doyle Saylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Bill McKibben / 350 Hi Peter, This stirs me up. I would like to reply in a serious manner, but can't. Yes I like seeing these sorts of efforts. So much of this is opaque to me. The economic barriers from the current market energy regime would have to crumble in order to open things up enough to consider what it would take. Anyway this seems to me what has to be part of the economic debate now. Sort of what would things look like to govern but not likely to look like 1917. Doyle On May 13, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Peter Hollings wrote: > SimPol ("Simultaneous Policy") is an attempt _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
