The Nieve Person

The podcast interview with Bill McKibben highlights the need of American society to become self-sufficient. Too often today, people rely on factories, grocery stores, energy plants and other corporations to mass-produce the essentials of life. Society focuses too much on the issue of the economy. Without a stable economy, people will be unable to afford the needs for living. As McKibben states in the podcast - the economy is not the problem. Instead of focusing our attention on the economy, our attention must be turned to focusing on becoming self-sufficient and becoming the provider of these resources. 

McKibben explains in great deal how important renewable energy is. McKibben talks about the solar panels powering McKibben's home. The idea of renewable energy runs hand and hand with becoming self-sufficient. Instead of buying products from large corporations that ship goods from other places, society needs to buy locally (i.e. a farmers market). Only 1% of the nation farms! This number needs to be increase dramatically if our society ever hopes on decreasing the large carbon footprint that is produced today. McKibben closes with explaining how growth has been society's focus for so long, now society needs to focus on durability.