It joins Burning the Midnight Oil for:
So, oh you scary "Federalizing Europe" which on one reading is being used as a bogey monster in the above essay (not the desired reading, but qualifiers on qualifiers can kill an essay, like they are killing the readability of this comment), what are the angles of the Arc of the Sun feature that most urgently need exploring?
But I never go to daily kos so I'm appreciating the ET spin off!
You asked the question so:
# rediscovering rural development in the Arc of the Sun
Definitely yes. The US seems to be moving rapidly ahead in this, maybe because there is a lot of land around still; maybe because all y'all (see, I learn!)--but hey! You're in Australia, did I get that right? (And yeah with the qualifiers!) I think clearly successful projects with a "what we learned" attached are blueprints for other communities; and I want lots of wonderful people growing food and building renewable energy sources and (for me funky please!) houses that grow with the surrounding land rather than being brick houses plonked on top! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
But you're right, this is important...!
(Now, why do I shiver each time the word "communities" is used ?) :-) "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
You'll have to remind me of your preferred word; I'm a (very very) slow learner! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
It relates, of course, with the "cultural barriers" diary :-) "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
This is a great diary, Bruce, an original, revealing slice through the pie. I've been thinking more and more lately that we need to move forward with concrete proposals/projects, and that these must concern local development (in rich or poor regions) in sustainable agriculture and industry. This can be seen in contrast with the financial capitalism hoax-fest; in this diary, you succeed in opposing it to "whatever it is" that makes the US establish precinct stations around the globe and tell Europe they need to help fight for them.
Just one thing: when I gogole "arc of the sun" I don't find much beyond a link back here or to DK. Er, this may be semantic quibbling, but can you explain arc of the sun a bit for dummies?
And, indeed, if looking for where to generate a positive cycle of growth between the two, the interaction between the countryside and market town is a good place to look for the bootstrap. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Metaphorically, if you lay out a conventional Eurocentric map with the Atlantic Ocean in one piece and the Pacific Ocean split into two pieces at opposite ends, and you take the low-income and middle-income nations that lie wholly or partly inside the tropics, you get a big sweep of countries from China in the upper right through Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Archipelago through India and Southwest Asia and Africa and South America and the Caribbean and parts of North America and if you step back and squint, and especially if at its tallest stretch as it passes through Africa you kind of focus on Central Africa, its kinda like an arc. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
