Some notes on Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
“Perhaps the very act of acquiring so much stuff has turned us ever more into individuals and ever less into members of a community, isolating us in a way that runs contrary to our most basic instincts.”
“You go from being a mere consumer to being a participant, talking about what you like and dislike, expanding your sense of who’s in your community and how it fits together.”
“We have a surplus of individualism and a deficit of companionship, and so the second becomes more valuable.”
“We don’t need each other for anything anymore”
Some thoughts about Arizona wanting to be a solar state:
- Demand all new construction have solar power
- Mandate all power companies buy back solar power
- Offer no interest/low interest rate loans for purchase and installation of solar equipment on existing buildings
- Give significant rebates for retrofitting solar
Apropos of nothing, except me being glued to the BBC News coverage of events in Washington, I read that first sentence as “Derp Economics” until I looked again…