We can make everything for a sustainable future from renewable resources and that can be done in ways that are beneficial to the environment.

Buckminster Fuller’s idea for mobile factories means that young communities, once established, could have a manufacturing capability for as long as they wanted or needed.

The factory would have available an educated, self-determinate workforce, highly skilled in mutually empowering communication, with a vested interest in the factory as shareholders of the corporation.

The available developmental resource base is already huge.

Perhaps production would become the province of younger and, maybe, urban communities with progressively older communities developing highly abundant and enterprising service/agrarian economies.

Groups of enterprising, empowered people, skilled at decision-making will decide the shape of that.

With the rapid growth we could expect, a career path in community development would be an option for all.

Whilst the current trend is towards the centralisation of manufacturing it is invariably environmentally damaging and uses non-renewable resources. Over the next two or three decades the supply of non-renewables are likely to be seriously compromised removing that system’s ability to compete. In addition, if our system grows at a respectable rate, that system should be finding difficulty accessing an exploitable workforce.

We don’t have to compete by manufacturing what they are manufacturing, nor does it preclude using those goods. Eventually though, and inevitably, those commodities would be replaced.

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