Self Reliance of Cities
I haven't yet gotten around to writing it up in the analysis section of this blog. But a major theme of this blog will be "self-reliance." For example, this theme will serve as one pillar of an answer to the question: In the coming People vs. Corporations war, what will the People need to do to prevail? Anyway, along this theme comes a story today about the mayor of Seattle driving an effort to have American cities pledge to follow the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. I see this is an early incarnation of what will happen in the next few years. That is, I believe communities will be continually forced to become ever more self-reliant. I further believe these forces of responsibility will "trickle down" to the individual families and individuals. Where do you get your water? Your food? Your heating? Your health? I am predicting that whatever your answers are to these questions today, your answers to these same questions a few short years from now will be quite different ... and the vector of that difference will point toward self-reliance.
[posted: 02/22/05]