Manufacturing made life awesome
No reason to make everything local by rejecting manufacturing outright
From this…
To this…
The above pictures reveal how far in the last 100 years we’ve come. The verdict is that we will NOT ever get away from manufacturing because simply: IT made our lives more comfortable; and no, I am not saying to pamper every human being.
Test it…
Imagine you in a village of 1000. Are all of you the same skill level and abilities? Very unlikely. Now if you wanted a pair of socks right away, your village of 1000 might have 5 sock makers. This means a long wait time, and low quality at the same time. So the old Adam Smith and division of labor matter. Also what matters, and what Adam Smith may not have said, but implied: Greater number of people are able to produce greater variety of “stuff”.
I do not mean to say “stuff” as in junk stuff. I mean- socks, shoes, laces, razors, buttons, makeup, pens, paper, utensils, napkins, plates, cans, bedding, wood works, cook ware, bricks, houses, cars, planes, trains, buses. The list is infinite. So, the greater the number of people on Earth the more variety, and the faster it could happen. We should be excited in the time we are living.
More People Equals Greater Creativity…
More creativity and more wealth for all because we can employ more people. We can also harness individual creativity and energy. The reason the world is a cornucopia of products and services is because we have the energy to do it: People, but LOCAL for everything isn’t the solution either. The solutions are in the middle.
Epiphany…
Local does not work at scale for everything and for everyone. That to make many products 100% local is impossible without impoverishing everyone in the process, at least on a temporary timeline. Are you willing to give up jumping into an air-conditioned room; flipping on your lights; flipping on the music; opening your fridge and popping a cold beer, or what have you? I doubt that. Even the most zealous environmentalist would object to losing that type of a luxury. So, I am saying we need a balance. Earthship project is a good example. I will only speak about energy in this type of a home.
$100 Bucks…
Earthship homes are made of trash (yes trash!), and they utilize the thermal mass concept among several others to create a warm place at night, and a cool place during the day. So in grand total, Earthship’s electrical bill is $100 bucks per annum.
$1200-$3000 bucks…
California homes, the regular kind, are hugely energy draining. At $1200-$3000 average per year for an average home, this number is 12-30 (1200%-3000%) times more than a biotecture home bill. Small beans? I like to think of my money in terms of my energy used elsewhere. So, think about it: if you earn $3000 per month, that is 1 months worth of your energy spent working just to pay your heating and electrical energy bill every year.
What to do…
So, we should orient/open ourselves to creating networks which promote homes like Earthship, or something along those lines with proven energy savings and demand nothing less:
Educate ourselves in energy and how to use energy effectively
Take action, start a service/product inline with good energy principles
Promote energy efficient technologies
Do not me scared of power innovations- nuclear power or other (nuclear is not going away unless there is a more powerful and a lot more safe solution)
Network
Embrace manufacturing and innovation
Good thinking…
Google Mark P. Mills’ work, and read some of his short, or long, reports that are available to public at large. You would greatly appreciate his insight if you are in the sciences, or simply have a curious disposition.
Pictures of Earthships
The FlunkedIn Team-
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Corrected spelling mistakes. I suck.