Living Well
Living Well
By
Dr Arvind Kumar
The notion of living
well should not be construed in terms of leading a luxurious and cozy life. It
means redesigning urban and non-urban living environments, the restitution of
the local, regional and national communal goods, and a quick transition toward
renewable energy at a small scale, that must be oriented to the locality and
owned by the local community, without hampering the natural balance, and
including wind, solar, small scale hydro and wave and local bio-fuels, not
global agro fuels. It also means reallocating the massive funds destined for
war in order to heal Mother Earth.
Living well should aim
at promoting an orderly reconstruction of the rural areas and the
revitalization of communities by way of agrarian reform, education and
application of eco-agricultural micro farming methods, based on native cultural
and communal practices, the wealth of communities, fertile land, clean water
and air. All of these approaches are in preparation for the inevitable
de-industrialization of agriculture as cheap energy supply declines.
Within the framework of
Living Well, what matters the most is not the individual, but the community,
where all the families live together.
Unbalanced development
has culminated in the crisis of nature and the severe effects of climate
change. The exaggerated industrialization of some countries, addicted
consumerism and irresponsible exploitation of human and natural resources have
resulted in ecological imbalance.
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