{"id":62476,"date":"2022-04-19T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62476"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:36:47","slug":"neighborhood-councils-to-cope-with-energy-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62476","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood councils to cope with energy decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neighborhood councils to cope with energy decline<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I\u2019m reading \u201cThe Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity<\/a>\u201d which is one of the best books I\u2019ve read in years, and a very hopeful one \u2013 this 700 page book is full of evidence that agriculture, capitalism, slavery, greed, and the unfair distribution of wealth we have today globally are not inevitable. There is no inevitable evolution of tribe to chiefdom to monarchy to state.\u00a0 Better societies once existed and might in the post carbon future. Plus the latest on dozens of new archeological sites found in the past few decades of forgotten civilizations.<\/p>\n

French Jesuits and other explorers recorded the ideas of natives before they were destroyed by the onslaught of settlers.\u00a0 Their insights, political sophistication, and understanding of their cultures were written up into best sellers in Europe, and Rousseau and other philosophers stole their ideas without attribution that gave rise to our modern ideas about freedom, egalitarian societies and more.<\/p>\n

Today with 8 billion people, the planet is full, more than full, it isn\u2019t possible to travel so easily as it was before fossil fueled civilizations and find a better tribe or start your own experiment.<\/p>\n

And to my surprise, travel was possible in the past. In America, sign language allowed natives to travel widely even if they didn\u2019t speak the tongue of the villages they encountered, and it vastly expanded the ability to trade goods over long distances. The same was true in Australia, see Bruce Chatwin\u2019s amazing book \u201cThe Songlines<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

People throughout time and places have always been conscious political actors.\u00a0 Another aspect of this book that gives me hope for the post fossil fuel world is that many societies deliberately rejected agriculture as their only sustenance, perhaps growing food part of the time seasonally, but then moving to hunting and gathering grounds another time of the year, often with huge celebrations of thousands of people.\u00a0 Burning Man is not new\u2026<\/p>\n

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Neighborhood councils to cope with energy decline I\u2019m reading \u201cThe Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity\u201d which is one of the best books I\u2019ve read in years, and a very hopeful one \u2013 this 700 page book is full of evidence that agriculture, capitalism, slavery, greed, and the unfair distribution of wealth we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[150,22093,32844,32845],"class_list":["post-62476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-energy-decline","tag-neighbourhood-councils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62476\/revisions\/62477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}