David Scott Moyerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/opinion/no-kings-trump-democrats.html
#NoKings #DavidBrooks #EJDionneJr #RobertSiegel #NoamComsky #OccupyWallStreet #NYT
My response:
Freekie@farbel As for vision, my suggestion would be to have a look at what's going on with #solarpunk , however their scope is wider.
As for me, I am interested in our money system and it's impact and also in complementary and alternative money systems and their possibilities, maybe also for housing.
As for housing, I would not be surprised if we would come to live in self-supporting communities, rather then in cities.
Investers will then of course have already sold their empty houses ðŸ¤
DoomsdaysCWYou know, I'm thinking you're right about that, @fdriesenaar . "As for housing, I would not be surprised if we would come to live in self-supporting communities, rather then in cities."
cc: @farbel
@DoomsdaysCW @fdriesenaar If we spread 10 billion people across the planet in small communities, where is the food grown? There is less than half an acre of arable land per person on the planet.
Good point. Obviously, those communities would have to have some population density. But perhaps those *cities* wouldn't be "concrete monstrocities," but places were folks would grow their own food -- balcony gardens, rooftop gardens, indoor greenhouses, food forests, etc. @farbel .
PapyrusBrigade has moved@DoomsdaysCW I don't think cities in themselves are concrete monstrosities. It's the cars. Cars add the pollution, noise, heat, and alienation. Also parking lots. Soooo many parking lots. To the extent that an outsider might presume our car dependent suburbs exist primarily to store cars.
With better networks of active transportation and public transit (and concerted push back against oil/auto lobby), the massive amounts of public space set aside to store cars can be put to better use. Housing. Parks/playgrounds. Food. Living beings.
I suppose it depends on the city, @PapyrusBrigade . There are parts of Boston that I adore, but those were brick tenements near green spaces (parks, community gardens, etc). All the crazy tall skyscrapers make me claustrophobic, and the traffic was maddening. But when I moved to Portland, Maine, I loved how walkable/bike-able it was (and still is). I could easily avoid the main roads to get from point A to B. Lots of bike and walking paths!