Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 3/11/07, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So Yoshie, would you rather parboil or freeze?
The only way to put a brake on climate change is socialism,
conservation, and urban planning that creates work/life/recreation
patterns centered on mass transit, but most people, North or South,
are not interested in them. We have to think what we can to do change
that.
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One word... Decentralization, of the workforce first... Work worth doing
near where people live, and incentives to work those jobs, would be a
good start. The states can do that even as the mass transit funds
vanish, and they HAVE been vanishing from the federal budget for quite a
while. After all, which Senator rides a bus?
Commuting must die as un-natural death as it is a way of living.
Which would lead to decentralization of the energy grid, and more
ecological application of alternative power sources such as wind &
solar, and near the ocean, wave rams or better still contact tranducers
in thin film, all of which, when applied on a large scale to centralized
societies create massive ecological problems of their own.
The big complaint about wind farms, for instance, is it requires ALOT of
heavy truck traffic to service a large scale project. Covering the
desert with solar cells, or the Monterey Bay with thin film plastic mats
would cause environmental havoc as well.
Decentralization is the way. The question is will America's economic
brainpower work towards that goal, even though there probably aren't too
many (if any) research grants available?
Every time I've brought up the subject of decentralization so far, it
gets poo-poo-ed, most likely because no one can figure out how to make
money from it, just like peace.
Leigh
