Especially when talking with others about political realism we all agree to buck up and write our congress people and try to influence the political process. Truthfully, whether talking about liberalization of law water rights or organic standards, there is a dark side to politics we should recognize reflected in the comment below. "The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves." - Bill Mollison. This is certainly not to suggest hiding from the political process, however given the gravity of our situation we should be realistic about actively finding solutions -- Sent from Fast notepad
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