Bruce Sterling recently declared that
Viridian greens are winning
. In a week where John Howard hails climate scientist Tim Flannery as
Australian of the Year
, he might have a point. In 2007, you're green or you're dead in the water. Which brings us to libertarians.
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Jared Diamond argues that Australia has poor soil fertility due to the lack of recent volcanic or glacial activity. The areas that did have glaciers over-turning the land were the area south of Fremantle and the Adelaide area. By Australian standards these are very fertile - by world standards they are average.
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A key theme in environmentalism is industrial and agricultural self-reliance, interpreted as a strong ethical relationship between yourself and the energy and materials you consume and produce. This expresses itself in a heavy focus on localism, village trading and life, to the point of personally producing and maintaining a sizable chunk of one's clothes, tools, and growing a large chunk of your own food. This exists even in the bright green consensus reality of technoprogressive environmentalists; Vinay Gupta of Worldchanging wrote recently of being Unplugged, and previously of a Global Sustainable Peasantry. I imagine Mencius asking: How do you have an Unplugged neurosurgeon?
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Dave Foley, of the stylish architectural practice
Holland and Foley
,
comments at Worldchanging
:
[...] There's one thing that's hard to do with efficiency and renewable energy: project military power.He's wrong: efficiency and renewable energy would make America's fun new imperialism more sustainable. (more)
