kublikhan wrote:And I say adding resilience to the current system as a whole is a better approach than beefing up resilience in your locale. Covid19 is showing how fragil our JIT system is. Some are already starting to move to add more resilience to it:
I am saying your view of resilience is brittle and is concentrating dispersed risk even more. You are saying more delocalization is better because of raw efficiency. I am saying your thinking is just more of the trap narrative. The trap narrative is fixing problems with more problem called dubiously “fixes”. It may sound odd when I say concentrating dispersed risk. That is one of those incongruous juxtapositions. What I mean by this is you are advocating dispersing more delocalization by saying localization efforts need to be reduced.
I say let’s recognize your industrial way is the default way unless we want a die off. Permaculture localism will not even support a local at this point becuase so much delocalization has occurred in the last century. What I am saying is beef up localism let’s say 30% so it is a buffer. I go even further by saying we need to take rural locals and make them both food and energy buffers. These areas could embrace seasonality, intermittency, and be a source of both passive and active backup. Many locals could be raising food and energy. They could be tuned into intermittency and shift to a low energy consumption state and export their energy to the grid as needed where 24/7 life cannot take disruption.
With food I am saying everyone that can should be raising food instead of playing with expensive big boy toys and games like needless spectator sports or bass fishing with a 200hp merc bass boat. I am saying instead of increasing the already very dangerous delocalization I am saying boost localism as a policy instead of rewarding Walmart’s and Amazons. You say reward these big box stores becuase they are our only hope. I am looking at this holistically saying value is more than raw theoretical numbers.
I am living it and you are not. You talk and I live and talk, big difference. I admit to many of your numbers just not your conclusions or your rational. My REAL Green embraces failure becuase of your numbers and the obvious honest science of limits that techno optimist like yourself reject except around the edges. You think substitution and efficiency will save us. Normally a techno optimist takes the economy for granted at a long-term average growth rate of 2-3 percent. This all could go into abrupt change just like the climate is now. Then the seeds don’t get in the ground and the trucks don’t run then what? I am saying while we have a chance lets repair some of the dangerous delocalization that has occurred if only at a few locals of enlightened individuals. Something is better than nothing or worse your way of further destruction of our basic support system.