Re: Re: Current implications for South Africa

[Doug Henwood]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

>>I am pretty sure that we can, but it will require *radical* adjustments
>>including:
>>
>>1. overcoming the city-countryside split as called for in the Communist
>>Manifesto.
>>2. elimination of the automobile and jet plane except for extraordinary
>>reasons.
>>3. promotion of bicycles and trains and other forms of environmentally wise
>>transportation.
>>4. drastic reduction in meat eating.
>>5. sharp cutback in fashion, luxury goods like Rolex watches, Mount Blanc
>>pens, overseas vacations, fancy restaurants and delicatessens--ie.
>>everything that goes into a "yuppie" lifestyle. In exchange for a reduction
>>in these kinds of dubious "goodies" we achieve more free time and a sense
>>of relief that we are not fucking over the rest of the world.
>>6. in general, less is more as Mies van der Rohe put it.
>
>1-6 won't solve the problem, though, if fossil fuels & clean water 
>are soon running out & there is no practical alternative energy 
>source, as Mark says.  How do you make bicycles & run trains without 
>fuels?

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