An Opinion Worth Considering:
GAR ALPEROVITZ published an op-ed piece in today's New York Times well worth reading, "California Split" (see the 1974 Robert Altman film by the same name). Gov. Schwarzenegger recently gave a speech in which he spoke repeatedly about California's size and economic prowess in terms of "nation state," suggesting that the gold coast state should think of itself as nearly a seperate entity from the rest of the country. Alperovitz points out in his piece today that this may be more than iron pumper's bravado. The nation may simply be becoming too large to govern centraly.
GAR ALPEROVITZ published an op-ed piece in today's New York Times well worth reading, "California Split" (see the 1974 Robert Altman film by the same name). Gov. Schwarzenegger recently gave a speech in which he spoke repeatedly about California's size and economic prowess in terms of "nation state," suggesting that the gold coast state should think of itself as nearly a seperate entity from the rest of the country. Alperovitz points out in his piece today that this may be more than iron pumper's bravado. The nation may simply be becoming too large to govern centraly.
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posted by Jim | 10:05 AM
1 Comments:
Here's the problem, as found in a squirrel's nest:
carrying capacity: maximum permanently supportable load.
cornucopian myth: euphoric belief in limitless resources.
drawdown: stealing resources from the future.
cargoism: delusion that technology will always save us from -
overshoot: growth beyond an area's carrying capacity, leading to
crash: die-off
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