A crash course in changing the world.
That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend—think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems.
But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse
depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We
can't rely on old habits any longer.
Our hope depends, on scaling back—on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but
also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an
unprecedented scale. Change—fundamental change—is our best hope on a
planet suddenly and violently out of balance.
By Bill McKibben
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