Love the resilience spending study! Once again, a proactive focus on long-term benefits and outcomes brings many sustained co-benefits. Reactive short-term approaches always tend to cost in the long run. The key is putting institutions in place that prioritise such long-term benefits. How do we do this when governments are on 2-6 year cycles? I think a lot about this in my newsletter but don't have all the answers. Things like Citizens Assemblies are a great idea in theory. I'd love to see more of these approaches in place.
Agree. And it is not just short government cycles. People are not living in one place very long anymore either. And the dynamic between renters and land owners isn't resiliency based.
We have start where we can affect change.
There are so many decentralized solutions ameliorated by animal partnerships, community councils, and enlightened planning depts.
It took 20 years with tanking and re-grading drainage to redirect water and become a 'living sponge' home in my own plot. The costs were negligible over that span
Love the resilience spending study! Once again, a proactive focus on long-term benefits and outcomes brings many sustained co-benefits. Reactive short-term approaches always tend to cost in the long run. The key is putting institutions in place that prioritise such long-term benefits. How do we do this when governments are on 2-6 year cycles? I think a lot about this in my newsletter but don't have all the answers. Things like Citizens Assemblies are a great idea in theory. I'd love to see more of these approaches in place.
Agree. And it is not just short government cycles. People are not living in one place very long anymore either. And the dynamic between renters and land owners isn't resiliency based.
We have start where we can affect change.
There are so many decentralized solutions ameliorated by animal partnerships, community councils, and enlightened planning depts.
It took 20 years with tanking and re-grading drainage to redirect water and become a 'living sponge' home in my own plot. The costs were negligible over that span
Motivation is key and we are wasting time.
Ugh!
Frustrating isn't it!
LOL...I'm currently 'tilting' at a windmill, Don Quixote style with 4 arms:
Animal Food Rescue, Solar cooking, Pocket community gardens, and California's AB 626 MEHKO law allowing for home restaurants.
The homestead is done 'enough', so now it is time to get the word out on what is very simple but brings in immediate changes for resiliency.
Keeps the ire and anxiety at bay.
Stay salty.
Thank you for this. Love that spending study. Love the hope you infuse.