Rob Hopkins Responds to Critique of Transition - Transition Whatcom2024-03-29T08:38:01Zhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/rob-hopkins-responds-to?commentId=2723460%3AComment%3A10286&feed=yes&xn_auth=noRob Hopkins quote: ...We cann…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2009-11-08:2723460:Comment:102862009-11-08T09:49:51.371ZHeather Khttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/HeatherK
Rob Hopkins quote: ...We cannot create new land, new energy systems at the click of a mouse. We live in a world of very real constraints. As we sit on our laptops exchanging ‘free’ ideas with each other, collaboratively building new ideas and concepts, there are still people in China mining coal to power the servers our web access relies on, processing the materials for our new devices, and the breakfast we eat before we start work has been sourced from great distances, with a huge energy and…
Rob Hopkins quote: ...We cannot create new land, new energy systems at the click of a mouse. We live in a world of very real constraints. As we sit on our laptops exchanging ‘free’ ideas with each other, collaboratively building new ideas and concepts, there are still people in China mining coal to power the servers our web access relies on, processing the materials for our new devices, and the breakfast we eat before we start work has been sourced from great distances, with a huge energy and carbon debt, and usually at the expense of the resilient local food systems we have so effectively devalued and discarded over the past 40 years. While we can be astonishingly inventive and brilliant about this, we also live in a very real world with very real demands and constraints...." quote from 'Responding to Alex Steffen's Critique'<br />
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Dave- I have not heard of Alex Steffen before and I'm not sure why I would want to read his writings.<br />
But I did appreciate the above quote from Rob Hopkins.<br />
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I'm interested in looking at a copy of Diane Damanoski's book "End of the Long Summer", and also looking for writings from the restorative ecologist Dan Janzen who does field work in the dry forests of Costa Rica.