‘The energy system of the future is being founded now.’

Let’s all peek at what one hypothetically geographically-stable group of USians did with the next 20 years.

By-the-by, for a nice prize, guess what issue I have with the “transition towns” model, based on how I phrased the previous sentence.

OK that’s not really fair. Here’s a hint:

People have to go where the jobs are.

That’s the old way of saying it. The new way might be, “people have to keep going where the jobs are.”

OK super hint. The job market for middle-incomers is bizarre. They’re nervous about getting tied down. Go ahead and gather them on some Tuesday night somewhere, encourage them to invest in the future of “their community.” How much energy or money will they volunteer?

Is this basically “if China won’t then I won’t” a little smaller? Is it the same answer, “single-payer transition”?

(•) OK. Comment.

it’s really sad but we have to have all the different “next 20 years” events in the same darn next 20 years.

one of those events will be a real problem for community planning. people just got BURNED BEYOND REASON in the housing market. we will also be facing THE WORST JOB MARKET IN LIVING MEMORY for the business end of those 20 years, the planning end.

so. i’m going to guess that people* will not want to commit to staying in one place, let alone investing time and energy in one place, because they are four times shy, having been burned on both the jobs and the shelter forces of community gravitation.

ok so then maybe it looks like the health care problem. the “transition towns” model can be said to be analogous to “employer-based health care,” in the way that resources for transition accumulate because people have a stable geographic relationship.

what if what we need is a portable transition model that is not “employment-based.” what if we need “single-payer transition.”

nobody said this would be easy.

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* “likely green voters”

Look if you can’t get the prize by now I don’t know what else to do for you.

(•) It’s totally possible that within a couple years, peoplehubs going green will draw more interest, from more interesting people.

(•) So then what to do places with less interesting people do. Become Haiti?