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Posts: 9511 04/06/07 23:47:14 BookTalk Owner |
Ch. 4 - The Wealth of Communities This thread is for discussing Chapter 4: The Wealth of Communities. If you would rather create your own thread feel free to do so. These chapter threads are only meant as a means of providing structure for those that appreciate structure.   |
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Loricat |
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Posts: 600 05/14/07 10:00:39 OMG I'm Awesome! |
I like the point made in this chapter about the homogenization (is that a word?!) of the airwaves. (Reminds me of one of my favourite movies, Pump up the Volume)
My husband and I were quite thrilled about one aspect of moving to this town we're in now -- it's close to the border, and we can get NPR. It's a nice companion to the CBC, and we're usually listening to one or the other. But I wonder to what extent that kind of radio station he's talking about in this chapter would change a community if it were started in a new town (if that were at all possible!)? "All beings are the owners of their deeds, the heirs to their deeds."
Loricat's Book Nook Celebrating the Absurd |
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Dissident Heart |
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Posts: 1868 06/05/07 10:40:11 Indisputable BookTalk Master |
Quote: Fairness as the driving value, rooted in honoring the needs of those who labor to produce and deliver the goods we need to increase our happiness. The result is a kind of neighborliness where we take interest in and are held accountable to those we live close to and do business with. Sacrifice is accepted as normal, even essential...not simply as an effort to give up a little to somehow get even more- but as a way of life that lives more simply so that others may simply live....including oneself, who like everyone else, lives under the impending doom of catastrophic climate change. Again, Mckibben in his characteristically positive and hopeful way, expresses his confidence that we will make the more intelligent and humane choice...sacrificing the efficiency of short term gain at a lower price for long term sustainability that costs more and delivers less stuff. McKibben argues that the richer parts of world can afford the demands of local economies because "our affluence allows a cushion for experimentation." What remains to be seen is whether the larger portion of the world's impoverished can afford such a risk. Quote: McKibben makes a powerful case in the next chapter (The Durable Future) that endless expansion in China and India on the scale of US consumption is completely unsustainable...nor can it be continued here. |
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