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Combatting Critical Mass so Life Rules Humanely

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ECOnomies that are relatively equitable, and concerned about the common good.

Communities that are locally/regionally self-reliant, interdependent, mixed species communities.

Communities that organize for self-reliance within environmental limits.

Communities that exchange Information and pool intelligence in real time.

Communities that distribute leadership according to task.

Communities that naturally cutback in hard times.

Communities that are inherently and organically democratic.

Those communities exist in the world. Lesser-developed countries comprise many of them, and they follow Life's ECOnomic Survival Protocols much better than our credit driven communities do.

If more Americans served at home and abroad, they would observe and learn from others how simply we too could live within sane ECOlogical and ECOnomical footprints. In doing so, they would come home to teach other less experienced Americans that our profligate ways are not the only way to blaze earth's trails away.

The subtitle to Ellen's book is Why So Much Is Going Wrong Everywhere At Once. How Life Teaches Us To Fix It This essay provides the involved and evolved answer.

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