Sustainability

To begin with a rant that continues in the spirit of my previous posts, I'd like to comment on the word sustainability in the broadest sense I can imagine, rather than a buzz word for politico-media types or eco-friendly lefty nonsense. A definition of the word sustainability as it applies to human life on a global scale, i suggest, only be considered in terms of at least millions of years. Save from an external catastrophe, 'humanity' ought be able to remedy its ailments and live long into a common peaceful future; if there really were a clearly definable group called humanity that had sovereign control over their own upcoming destiny, this might perhaps become the case.

As is increasingly apparent by the emerging world order, a neo-fascist style feudalism is the rampant style of governance and control on a global level. From the unlawful income taxes forced on most, the licensing and registration of people as persons (i.e., items of property) and the subsequent statute laws enforced outside of common law, to subliminal mind control of the populace by centralized interests with ties to think tanks, media, secret cabals (i.e., Bilderbergs and others), and governmental organizations, where is the Individual able to pursue sustainability?

Any idea of sustainability needs to take into account the propensity of ordinary individuals to ask things like, "How much will sustainability cost me, my city, my province, my country, etc.," without taking into consideration that the entire global financial system is a fundamental control mechanism that any average citizen has no influence over whatsoever. One of the most essential ingredients for a better world is the abolishment of money. Plain and simple, as complex an issue it is, money as it stands today is a method of control and domination and it has got to go before any coherent idea of social order can be expected to emerge. I call anyone who agrees or disagrees to please let it be known to me.

The trends that have resulted from our social engineering have made individually sustainable lives quite a remote possibility. Private property, the financial system, and international economic interdependence have been, I think, the three most influential factors in the compartmentalization of human life. We allow the system to regulate our lives only by participating in it. Just because the food is in the supermarket doesn't mean there isn't any other food out there. Just because someone says you owe their corporation taxes, even though they can't show you the 'law' that says so, doesn't mean they have any right to do so. Just because a bunch of talking heads on TV say we need oil doesn't mean anything more than a pimp telling a prostitute she needs heroin. We can change things on our own and it involves separating ourselves from the addiction to petty ideas like money. Sustainability starts with personal responsibility, especially to recognize the influences of social engineering.

No need to further digress, as a philosopher named Husserl endowed us with a phenomenological operation called 'bracketing,' whereby we can put aside those previous considerations and move on as though they did not apply. Even though they do apply, the thought experiment of developing a definition of sustainability can continue nonetheless. So, we bracket the money issue and move on.

I think sustainability is best defined as taking responsibility for all the necessary energy inputs for my body, my homestead, and eventually the community. There are infinitesimal variations on how this can be accomplished and suited to meet the human needs of any community. I tend to have a very regionally focused tendency in my ideas, because I think that everything people need, even up to the level of manufactured goods, could reasonably be provided for within the radius of a couple hundred kilometers at most places throughout the world. There is no need for massive manufacturing sectors that enslave children and countries in order to fill bargain stores all over the more 'wealthy' nations. If instead people desired quality goods that aided them in achieving sustainable lives, everything needed could be fabricated within the region. This infrastructure hinges on the region having a population that provides itself with enough food and resources to be able to provide for another industrial sector, to speak in common terms. If everyone takes care of their own energetic inputs, which I think is totally viable if the mental structures are in place first, then there is no dependence on centralized control, and if we want to build a TV factory then so be, a TV factory will be built! And sustainable!


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An interesting perspective called: Permatopia, global permaculture.

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Subtopics on the issue,

An Incomplete List:

Shelter:
-underground homes
-straw-bale homes
-earthship, impacted earth homes

Permaculture
-permanent agricultural infrastructure
-seed banks
-minimize energy input, maximize energy output

Energy:
-solar
-hydro
-geo-thermal
-wind

Resource Based Economy