There were others who understood back in 1987 (although very few) the future catastrophic climate implications of BOTH kinds of development strategy.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:54 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > A personal experience that supports the more cynical / realistic posts in > this thread: technology, capitalism, poverty, etc. > > In 1987 I was taking a graduate course in "development anthropology" and > had to write a term paper on economic development in the Sudan (one of my > professors was married to a woman from there). The proposal centered on > solar power as the innovative tech and as an alternative to several planned > hydro-power projects being planned. In addition to solar panels for local > energy needs, the proposal included a framework for manufacturing 12-volt > appliances, like refrigerators, lighting, heaters, toasters, kitchen > appliances, etc. as well as computers. 80% of the manufactured goods were > for export — to the, then, luxury RV market in the US and Europe. Huge net > gain in Sudanese economy demonstrated. > > Prof sent the paper to a competition at the World Bank and I won a $2500 > prize. World Bank tried to get funding for the project from member nations, > especially the US, but USAID vetoed the plan in favor of a multi-billion > dollar hydro project that "just happened" to award construction money to US > companies and incorporated technically obsolete generators and transformers > for the inevitable, very wasteful transmission grid. > > davew > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 12:33 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > > Yeah, when I incorporated back in '01, I did it in Oregon, knowing we > > were likely to move there within a few years. All my advisors said that > > was a mistake, that I should incorporate in Delaware or somesuch. I was > > more libertarian, then. But even then, my ethos was to try to > > contribute to my locale (network or geo). So incorporating in some far > > flung place just doesn't seem right. Since we're still only 2 hours > > from PDX, I figure it's still roughly local. > > > > Just this morning, I saw a van delivering groceries to the neighbors > > <https://www.imperfectfoods.com/>. And although everything about it > > sounds good, that they're based in CA makes me resist, perhaps in order > > to find something *local*. We have a cool little store less than a mile > > away that seems responsible and is owned by a long-term family in these > > parts. > > > > On 4/19/21 11:18 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > > If the principals behind Redwood Materials INC are all upstanding > long-time NV residents or there were something specifically obvious about > their geography that makes them an obvious location for such an operation, > then I can give that question a soft pass. To be fair the principals > listed on their website <https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/about> do seem > to have honest credentials, albeit maybe weighted toward having come from > places that acutely helped to create the problems they are promising to > solve... > > > > -- > > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @merle110
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