Bolivia Nationalizes Electricity Companies in Hopes of Improving Rural Access

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4. First we would need to know

what is sustainable and what is not, and is there sustainable dynamic process to reach state of sustainable production and consumption. And if this is a valid formulation of the question. We have a local contemporary academic philosopher here in Finland who talks a lot about "synnyistä", which could be translated as 'origins'/'births' or something like that, and is central concept in the shamanistic way of life and thought that is the background of our national epos 'Kalevala'. As a shamanistic society is based on the idea of sustainability, it needs to intimately know and follow the "deep origins/births" of their sustainable way of life, and as you point out, we are very much lacking in that knowledge in our contemporary globalized society.

There are some measures such as ecological footprint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint) that can have same use and value, and we have available and tested the "technical" know how of how to build at least materially sustainable horticultural ecocommunities.

To answer some or your questions, of course first world nations currently at the top of "civilization" hierarchy believe in class society and inequality. But now that the situation of energy economy is more or less a zero sum game, neoliberalism is doing one thing as promised, it's levelling the game and making former first world OECD countries IMF puppets with austerity programs and cutting consumption, while Chindia etc. are still increasing their consumption and slice of global cake.

But any case, there's little point for any individual trying to control the adaptation process from any imaginary top down position. The process is global and inclusive of me and you, not external object.