Michael: > Isn't the question of local versus national extremely complex? > Global warming requires international cooperation, yet local > planning that would facilitate less driving and more > convenient mass transit can make an enormous contribution. > .....
Indeed! This is why I am both a localist and globalizationist in the first place. Moreover, this is why I am interested in approximate suboptimal solutions as opposed to globally (global in mathematical sense, not geographical) optimal exact solutions. Who can find an exact global solution to such a complex problem, let alone define it well, whatever "well" means? Yet you need to start from somewhere and to me where we are now, that is, an international system of "nation states" seems to be the best place to start from. Best, Sabri
