McKibben’s interview on his book
titled Eaarth pointed out some very
interesting facts and ideas about how we live our lives on this planet. Humans
care more for “the economy”, which is an idea that humans invented, than the
earth, which is a very real and solid thing that lives are truly based on. Just
knowing five edible plants native to a bioregion as well as where the waste of
a community goes is a real question that most people do not know the answer to.
Humans have begun to focus more and more on things that don’t matter and
McKibben is trying to fight against that tide. McKibben wants to switch the
entire axis of how humanity deals with its energy. Instead of taking a focused
source and distributing energy from it to the people McKibben wishes to take
diffused sources of energy like wind and sunlight and have each individual
input contribute to humanity’s needs. McKibben wants to take the growing number
of poor and put them to work for saving the planet by using low impact farming
methods that can be easily taught. The growth that humanity has used to fix all
of its problems has become a problem as well. Subsidies that foster this growth
have babied industries that have meanwhile intertwined together so that if one
industry fails so does everyone else. An evolutionary tool that has grown into
our economy so that no drastic changes can be easily made anymore.
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