We Are All Chinese Now

[hunter]

1. Yep. I agree with many elements of that "plan."

Shut down all non-essential-to-life fossil-fueled high-energy industry, including the automobile industry.

In other words, it's not going to happen until Mother Nature crushes this world's bizarre and unsustainable economic ideology in much less pleasant ways.

I disagree with the author about most urbanization. Urban and the denser suburban areas can be restructured into low energy, walkable communities. Rural resettlement of the "forty acres and a mule" sort would require extensive high energy redevelopment, and relocating existing communities in a voluntary and agreeable manner is not a trivial task.

Even existing urban "slums" can be turned into comfortable, safe places by installing proper sewer, water, and electrical systems, and establishing some sort of property rights to families who are now simply regarded as squatters on land they do not own, subject to eviction and the destruction of their homes, all at the whims of big money developers and by force of law.

Breaking up existing communities and scattering the people is something only totalitarian governments and oligarchs do. Case in point, New Orleans: Big Money is all too happy to turn New Orleans into some kind of Venice or Disneyland, just as lower income communities are taken by eminent domain, and the people scattered to build things like football stadiums and shopping centers.