HOW DO WE MOVE TOWARD LIVING WITHIN LOCAL ECOLOGICAL LIMITS?
A recent NY Times opinion piece suggests that to prepare for the future, young adults need help identifying and pursuing their own goals and assessing their progress. This makes sense to me-- and we'll need goals that respect ecological limits and minimize dependence on electronics and other vulnerable technologies.
To survive chaos, we'll need to learn to share and cooperate.
While it's hard to interest techno-optimists in degrowth, hoping that reliable commonsense will simply "emerge" from large databases has proven unrealistic. Meanwhile, Europe has implemented a host of regulations to limit big tech growth.
Enrollment in nature schools has soared.
One friend started a local garden club. Existing members can introduce a new one. (They now number 105.) Facebook provides their platform. Meeting on weekends, academics, and asking for donations did not work. People want to have fun. They meet regularly to plant flowers and help each others with light projects. Call it the start of a modern neighborhood.
Some people organize seed swaps, clothing swaps and mending and making circles. In Hungary, some people have shifted to freight-by-biking. Some people avoid credit cards and use cash whenever possible.
In Portland, Oregon, people turned a run-down 35-unit apartment complex into a thriving village.
Jason Hickel writes why less is more.
CLOSING QUESTIONS
To reduce your dependence on international supply chains, what have you tried?
What have you tried to reduce your dependence on A.I.?
What has worked?
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