If you ever end up reading this book, I sure would like to know what you think. I am just a regular guy and reading this, along with other related books you see in the TwistedPolitix Reading List, doesn't look so bad. The idea here is to finally get out of the boom bust cycle twisted economix and war presented by our world power hungry. That just means making your local economy more resilient to outside forces, like bribery, corruption, racketeering, fear, uncertainty and doubt. It would resemble life in the past in the sense that we were more locally involved, but that technology would be more advanced in some areas and behind in others. Forget Obama, Romney, or Ron Paul for now. Just think about how this economy and life in general could improve. This is where you go think, not disengage behind a screen.
Transition Handbook
The first of these was the Transition Handbook, by Rob Hopkins.
Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, describes it well:
“The Transition concept is one of the big ideas of our time. Peak oil and climate change can so often leave one feeling depressed and disempowered. What I love about the Transition approach is that it is inspirational, harnessing hope instead of guilt, and optimism instead of fear. The Transition Handbook will come to be seen as one of the seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age and which offered a gentle helping hand in the transition to a more local, more human and ultimately more nourishing future.”
