The Importance of Localization: Reduce inequality, preserve the environment, increase efficiency

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[00:00:00]You know, we have globalization moving food all around you. The average American food plate moves about 1,400 miles. That There's no reason for any of that, especially now. If you go down the line of what's possible, you remove the the chaos of human society and its strange beliefs and everything else, and you actually look at what we can do, then there's no reason for anyone to be hungry, obviously. There could be an an incredible state of efficiency and abundance across food and energy and production. So, when we talk about abundance, it's so confusing with people cuz they you know, I get talked all day long like "Well, the world is is finite. You know, we can't make it abundance." What's You know, what It's obviously it's a relative notion. I mean, the the sun will eventually burn out. It's abundant to us in the long term of time. So, you talk about, you know, suddenly there's a magical amount of everything. It's about using the efficiency and of course focusing the economy on the interest to have an abundance because in our current society, it's the antithesis of what's rewarded. We reward scarcity. We want things to be generally scarce. This is the corporate construct. Business doesn't want there to be an abundance of anything. So, the pollution of the water supply, that's great for the water bottling companies.

[00:01:07]So, we're rewarding the exact opposite.

[00:01:09]So, you can't have sustainability, preservation, efficiency in a society that rewards the opposite. And there lies the great con- contradiction of the capitalist system. And in terms of energy, I mean, what is possible right now? I remember reading that just such a small area in like Africa could power the entire continent plus part of Europe. I mean, There I I do an analysis in the book that just looks It looks at all the basic renewables, and each one of them has the capacity to create a global abundance and meet the current needs. And you put them all together in a synergy, then they make basic what's called mixed-use systems,