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peaking radical change is enacted one of two ways the first is by revolution of one sort or another a violent not always warlike but always violent and deeply disruptive overthrow of what has gone before in a very short time the casting off of what has always seemed inviolable slavery colonialism the divine of kings transforms the landscape the problem with revolutions is that the costs are extremely high even a non violent revolution means that large chunks of the existing population in power are simply cast out and often come back to haunt you think cuba s wealthy landowners for example revolutions are vastly destructive and anyone who simply isn t ready either adapts or is overrun the other option is culture change the gradual transition of a society from old values to new ones it starts as a small movement growing gradually until ideas permeate the culture most of those who resist are given the chance to acclimate and eventually come to accept if not like the dominant culture view eventually cultural norms make it impossible even for those who espoused previous views to acknowledge them or to express them think for example of the american civil rights movement while racism was once a cultural norm in the us now if you ask around there are only about 4 people in the us who will admit to ever having expressed racist views the difficulty with this method is that it is far too slow for our present purposes the major advances of the civil rights movement for example came over a period of 20 years we simply don t have 20 years of marching and gradually changing cultural norms now it is necessarily the case that every movement contains elements of both of these that is the civil rights movement did include revolutionaries and revolutions often begin with demonstrations it is impossible for me to describe historical courses in any detail in a five page essay but most such changes are dominated either by a moment of overthrow or by the lack of that moment are those our only choices that is are our only options taking up arms or marching and singing both might work or they might not we may well be able to transition our culture given enough time or enough will and anger to a society that can adapt to the new environmental norms but we do not have multiple decades to make such a transition james hansen for example notes that most of our environmental changes will have to come rapidly over the next decade and because almost all our changes take some major lead time that means that the period we have to change attitudes is very short as for revolution it is simply too destructive even were it not a bad idea for a host of other reasons the human costs of radical sudden transformation are resistance lots of it and lots of resistance means either the failure of overall goals or repressive responses that destroy what is created from the inside out so are there any other choices between the complete rupture of prior experience and the gradual transition to a new way of thinking i think there is another option but it depends upon being prepared to take hold of a moment and claim it as your own the third choice is something i m calling for lack of a better term threshold moments those points at which history intervenes and something that was unimaginable the day before becomes entirely possible at those moments it is possible to make a larger step forward than could previously have been imagined people are poised for radical change now such moments occur in two ways the first is when events demand a particular change for example as in cuba when the cutoff of oil supplies demanded a rapid fire deindustrialization of agriculture and the transition to a new economy in this case cause and effect are direct that is the systemic response to food shortages is the institutionalization of a new system the bombing of pearl harbor leads to a military response and us participation in the world war while it can never be said that there is no other response possible the response is the logical successful addressing of a problem but there is another kind of threshold moment one in which we perceive we are at a transitional moment and at which it is possible to imagine a number of possible responses where what matters is that the populace is poised for response and multiple possible successful responses are possible here is the moment at which it is possible to advance a new agenda and possible to override other public agendas by laying claim to that moment and advancing one s agenda as a logical response the obvious example here is 9 11 if you are not american i think it is hard to understand how desperately americans were casting around after 9 11 for some way to make their own response match up to the radical change in their world that they experienced and there is nothing logically contiguous with the event about say invading iraq or going shopping that is what was most notable about 9 11 was that people were willing to make massive changes had they been asked they were not asked and no one made a strong attempt to wrest the narrative of 9 11 away from the government individuals resisted the story we were being told but there was not a fully formed attempt say to recast our response to 9 11 in terms of oil and energy and to use it as a major call for renewable growth some attempts were made but there weren t enough people working together such threshold moments come around fairly often in history and are likely to come more often as we enter what has been called interesting times in the last decade we ve had large scale threshold moment 9 11 and a smaller one in which some significant cultural changes might have been enacted hurricane katrina does that sound strange and unlikely i think it is true that had americans been told after 9 11 we want you to go out and grow a victory garden and cut back on energy usage the response would have been tremendous it would absolutely have been possible to harness the anger and pain and frustration of those moments and a people who desperately wanted something to do even after katrina it would have been possible for a concerted narrative that ran the pictures from the superdome over and over again saying and if you never want this to happen again you must katrina would not have been nearly as effective as 9 11 but a great deal of change could have been made with it regardless and making use of the momentum of such events could have enabled us to be that much further along in the adaptation process before a moment comes at which a particular response is truly necessary naomi klein notes that this is precisely the claim of milton friedman s shock doctrine which says that at a moment of crisis you can sweep away the old and transform things utterly up until now such a system has been mostly used for ill for market reforms that are utterly destructive to our public life but since such events will be used it only makes sense for us to use them for good moreover as klein points out the shock doctrine s essential message overthrowing the past is destructive to the ordinary people who are victims of a crisis that is those who live through such threshold moments in history and are directly affected by them want to cling to what they have of the past to restore what they have lost the shock doctrine model destroys rather than reclaims the past here sustainability advocates have an enormous advantage in being able to claim the narrative from those who want to overthrow the past because ultimately our propositions are always tied to the past to previous successful responses to hard times and disaster we are tying our propositions to what people dreamed of in suburbia the small slice of personal eden that never was and saying you can have that thing you once sought as part of the promise of restoration those who claim that we are merely advocating a return to the past are missing the point it is never possible to go back but it is feasible to anchor the future in the past to offer a narrative in which we do not have to give up what we value but can retain it and take it with us into a new and radically different world to do this we will have to prepare and watch for the next such threshold moment the peak oil and climate change movements were simply not organized enough 7 years ago at 9 11 and we mishandled hurricane katrina there were plenty of individual attempts to tie it into climate change but there was no unified attempt to create a single narrative account of katrina if we are to imagine relocalization and steady state economics taking over if it is possible and i do not say that it is merely that we cannot fail to try we must be absolutely prepared for the next threshold moment and to explain how it is and it will be we won t have to lie about the oil about the climate and how it demands a particular response not blowing up another country far away but a change in us i have no idea when that moment will come and neither does anyone else it could happen tonight and have us wake up in a changed world or it could leave us hanging for years and the next such threshold we cross could be the transition into a real disaster one in which our options are limited but regardless since it is always possible to fuck things up worse than necessary sustainability advocates of every kind must be prepared to take one story and echo it back across media and blogs to tell it and tell it and teach others to demand a particular kind of response one of the things about this that is important is to remember that this doesn t work in a linear way that is the process involves going along making small changes and adding a few new recruits and tiny incremental alterations for a good long time at first it seems like you aren t making any progress at all that the change is so vast that the little moves can t get you there but it is important to remember that you are doing the advance work for something that is likely to alter not with a gradual building but in a moment that is we re doing what we can now so that when the right time comes we can do vastly more kurt cobb observed at community solutions that the best example of this narrative claiming is the 9 11 truth movement regardless of what you think of their claims they have been enormously effective in changing the official story about what 9 11 was there are more of us paul hawken has called the sustainability movement the largest movement on the planet and that may well be true there are tens of millions of people all over the world who care about this and we have to be able to tell the story the true story of how climate change and peak oil have created a disaster to which we must now respond in the meantime we grow our victory gardens and build our movement and educate our neighbors and plan and wait it won t be too long in coming and then it will be time to pass the word and make our move to try and take control of the narrative and say this is what is needed as a response to make us better and everything we do in the meantime everything we start every working model we create every program we start every change we make in our homes and neighborhoods gets us that much more ready to seize the day sharon posted by jewishfarmer at 10 15 am 88 comments wednesday february 13 2008 thank god i m a country girl with apologies to john denver this was not what i was supposed to be writing today but all i can say is that my brain is a strange strange place sometimes had the radio on caught this song and couldn t get it out of my head it isn t like i m even a john denver fan but stranger things have happened until this came out if you don t know the tune the song is available through itunes thank god i m a country girl with apologies to john denver well i was born right here in these suburbs its where i catch my rain and where i grow my herbs walk the kids to school and cross at the curbs thank god i m a country girl with my husband and kids we re ridin on our bikes to the farmer s market y know its quite a hike littlest one even does it on his trike thank god i m a country girl well i got me a fine life got a green plan i m cookin homegrown in my cast iron pan i can t do it all but i m doing what i can thank god i m a country girl i live in an apartment on the fourteenth floor but you can see i m green when you open up my door never owned no car so my feet get kinda sore thank god i m a country girl well a simple kind of life never did me no harm my community garden is my own tiny farm thrift shop clothes have their own kinda charm thank god i m a country girl well i got me a fine life i got a green plan i m cookin homegrown in my cast iron pan i can t do it all but i m doing what i can thank god i m a country girl its 33 miles to the supermarket but i ve no need for goin took the car and parked it huntin my own and the deer ain t remarked it thank god i m a country girl we gone organic when i was just a bride now i m a grandma and we re riding with the tide hard times a comin but folks are on our side thank god i m a country girl well i got me a fine life i got a green plan cookin up homegrown in a cast iron pan i can t do it all but i m doing what i can thank god i m a country girl we re just folks who remember what we re after we re not seeking riches we re really chasin laughter those that think we re crazy we know they re daft er thank god i m a country girl country s not just a place it is a state of mind there s earth under the feet of folks of every kind the country and the future they belong to me and mine thank god i m a country girl sharon who will be keeping her day job posted by jewishfarmer at 1 10 pm 229 comments tuesday february 12 2008 online food storage class info ok folks i m putting together the online food storage class that there was so much interest in i thought i d offer it in four weeks over the month of march there will be four components and this class will go considerably beyond the talk i m giving on saturday so you don t need to feel bad if you live too far away to attend a weekly blog post with discussion on my regular blogs this will be open to everyone i ll also post some recipes from the weekly how to eat it section on my blog a set of follow along readings the list of readings for each week not required for participation but helpful will also be available on my blog to anyone who wants to participate a group for registered participants to discuss food storage issues i ll be around to answer questions and facilitate discussion this will also include recipes additional materials and suggestions help setting up an individualized food storage program based on your family concerns and conditions the course will be divided into four week long sections week 1 march 6 and 7 the basics why store food what kinds how much where to put it how long to keep it how to eat it how to ensure a nutritious balanced good tasting food supply week 2 march 13 and 14 buying in...