Lessons can be learned by watching.

A system is only as strong as its weakest link; make a nuclear containment structure (theoretically?) plane-proof and bomb-proof, still the generator sits outside, its water source exposed, and a shut-down reactor cannot power itself; powered by fission, not fusion, its “steady state” is detonation, not stasis.

A viable solution to the nation’s energy crisis (finite fossil fuels, unsustainable sources of electricity) and a response to a near-universal consensus that global warming is a dire reality (universal to everyone without vested financial interests) must not rely on building more, but on learning to live with and use less.

There is always an event that triggers chaos. Let me repeat that: there is ALWAYS an event that triggers chaos, whether it is of human manufacture or by the “Hand of God”. The more fragile and explosive our underlying systems, the greater the catastrophe we must shoulder when, not if, that event occurs.

Real change begins with supporting one another in a non-consumptive way of life: by turning toward one another, and away from trinkets. Even in the city, where the structures we rely upon seem inextricably bound together, there are spaces and opportunities to live more slowly, and closer to the Earth; and there are many more people with whom to live that reality. Numbers bring strength and progress.

Individual small successes, brought together, add up to great change!

We don’t need to suffer crisis to avoid it.

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