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jleopold  ·  3150 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is the local economy the solution to a post-capitalist world?

The statistic I probably use the most is that Cuba prdocues something like 3000 Calories per day per person, from one of McKibben's essays (it's in his Reader). I love to compare it to the propaganda pictures showing empty grocery store shelves, and say that the stores are empty because they eat fresher produce. I'm both excited and cautious towards the current warming of relations with the US, because I would hate for Cuba to adopt the commercial food practices of the US. Really, we need to adopt practices they've perfected, like community urban gardens.

That is just one great point McKibben makes. He is one of the thinkers we should really be looking towards more, he has an approach to climate change that manages to be urgent, but not overwhelming. It isn't a sort of hippie-radical approach that is quickly dismissed put of hand, but a more academic and reserved approach.