Re: flawed paradigm that led to the Y2K problem

[Bagelhole1@aol.com]

	Do you think this plan is worthy to mobilize around?



Gentle people, I hope you find these ideas worthy of supporting: First of all,
I would like to assume that you are up on y2k. But, if you are like many
progressives, you may be asleep at the wheel on this one, I hope not. In any
case, please be so kind as to indulge me for a moment, for I have found much
on the web which supports the premise that can be found on the state of
California y2k web site, that there is the possibility for infrastructure
breakdown (i.e. no electricity, etc. for an indefinite period) and hence
contingency should be implemented with this in mind.

With this possibility in mind I would like to assert that the best, the most
comfortable contingency that I can imagine would be self-sustainable, self-
reliant, neighborhoods globally and locally before 2000. This is the funky,
cheap, simple type of self-sustainability, not the deep ecology or the bio-
regionalism, or anything that would take years to implement. This is a
comprehensive self sustainability that would be more fitting for contingency
for infrastructure rupture such as y2k presents. Something that could be done
before 2000. It is a daunting challenge, but who is to say its impossible. 

The stakes are so high, with the possibility of martial law/chaos on one side,
and the other possibility. . . Imagine, if you would, the worst-case scenario
does occur and we in our wisdom had the foresight and the diligence and the
creativity to implement self-sustainable neighborhoods comprehensively and
globally in time. The safety net would be available for everyone and everyone
would experience the liberating and healing effect of community based on
mutual co-operation and after a month or who knows how long of living this
way, without money, the people of the world would see the absurdity of ever
returning to the former way of injustice, waste, destruction, exploitation,
and corruption that we have all had to endure and which has so degraded and
compromised everyone's existence. Thus the world would be transformed in one
fell swoop, possibly. Its just a possibility, of course. But is it not worth
mobilizing all those who could help in creating an ever-improving list of
ideas that are cheap and simple for sustainability? Would your organization be
interested in playing an instrumental role in getting this ball rolling? This
once in a millennium opportunity is very fleeting, there is only 13 months
left. There is a certain urgency, if we are not to miss this and head into y2k
with little but an ever deepening sense of panic. If for some reason you don't
agree, please let me know why. Yours in hopeful collaboration, 

Tom 

415-824-4214

bagelhole1@aol.com





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