Thursday, January 27, 2011
A Realistic Plan on How to Change the World and a Step by Step Lesson on How to Do It
I am going to give you all a realistic plan on how to change the world and also a step by step lesson on how to do it. (And a step by step lesson on how YOU as an individual person can actually change the planet) And Im going to do it in less than 300 words:
We have to decentralize. Huge task, right? It can TOTALLY be done. And it actually can be done quite simply, and fairly quickly. We just need all hands on board to do it. This is where the individual comes in, and this is where we see that one person is actually the only thing that will save us.
What happens is a community decides they want to be more self-reliant and sustainable, and so collectively they act. These communities can range in groups from a dozen to millions. Individuals come together to make dozens, who come together to make hundreds, who come together to make thousands and so on.
These people decide to stop relying on items that come from wasteful, and foreign industries. They start living sustainably, and therefore become largely self-reliant. The community produces their own food, their own clothes and shelter, and oftentimes their own energy (renewable- solar, wind, etc). Therefore, most of of their livelihood comes from a local source, and now, for the most part, they ARE in fact living in a decentralized manner. Maybe some still would consider them to be centralized, but their central power becomes the planet and not a corporation.
And then, this happens, over and over again, all over the world, until there are no more unsustainable communities.
The root of my little theory on how it is totally possible and almost EASY to change the world inherently relies on the idea of collective action. Collective action is when individual people are motived by at least one common value, and then come together as a group to act on it.
So if individuals don’t act, this plan will fail. Individuals need to realize how important they are. And individuals need to feel that one person can make a difference.
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