[SustainableTompkins] TheEnergy-PopulationCouple

[northsheep at juno.com]

 On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:58:28 -0400 Tyler Jay Goepfert
<tgoepfert at gmail.com> writes:

are people working on how an economy or society can remain 
> stabile if population is shrinking?  

I think this is an extremely important question, which suggests we should
be thinking and planning for a radical reorganization of work, of what
people do with their lives. Thanks to global inequality there is no lack
of cases of lower energy consumption economies in the world today. And in
the US historically - like the old model of the diversified general farm,
which was generally much more self-sufficient in energy and other inputs
requiring energy than agriculture here today. I am not suggesting that we
take these cases as complete models, but mine them for ideas.

Karl North
Northland Sheep Dairy, Freetown, New York USA
     www.geocities.com/northsheep/
"Mother Nature never farms without animals" - Albert Howard
"Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying