![]() In short, we need to redesign for community and regional resilience to a turbulent economic future while increasing food, water and energy sovereignty at those scales. How do we switch to regional transport systems that are not dependent on expensive imports of fuel? How do we provide energy from regional renewable resources as oil production and oil prices force us out of fossil fuels (for good)? How do we feed our population at the bioregional scale from food grown mainly regionally? What are some of the measures that communities, cities and regions will have to have to begin to explore anyway? Let us not waste time by pretending that what we had before was working or is worth returning to. We are now pushed to a global mobilisation of resources and civic participation that the planet has not seen before. Let’s not plan for return to business as usual after this - the climate emergency and obscene levels of inequality within and between countries clearly indicate that BAU was not working and heading for imminent collapse and synchronous failure anyway. Yes, this pandemic is upon us and the stock markets are collapsing, production, air travel, air pollution, … are dropping … recent predictions based on a model by researchers of the Universities of Based and Stockholm suggest that even with a summer dip in the rate of increase the COVID-19 virus could infect 100 million people (at a time) by Winter 2020/21. Time to switch to Game B - a globally cooperative humanity worth its name … united in the commitment to create conditions conducive to life and redesign the human impact on the planet from exploitative and degenerative to healing and regenerative. The time to (re)create vibrant bioregional economies that incentivise ecosystems regeneration and a reregionalisation of production and consumption is here. ![]() This is the time to accept that change is no longer an option but now forced on us at a scale that the current economic system will AND SHOULD NOT recover from! Let’s make this the catalyst for the re-design and regeneration of the human impact on Earth - we can heal the Earth and her people, regenerate ecosystems everywhere, regenerate our cooperative nature and build renewed social cohesion through community solidarity … ![]() COVID 19 / cooperatively redesigning the human impact on Earth
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