think again of how, increasingly, economics-as-usual leaves out externalization of costs to restore good health and beneficial functions. Workers handling toxic materials are reflective of all who are in contact with costly chemically based machine engineering that has cut us off from entire Watershed planning.
It is easy to follow known pattern with automatic gesture. But which pattern leads to biodiversity? Civic leaders take a role of competitive point-by-point decisive administering. No wonder cancerous fracking of heart and mind drives corporate rule-of-thumb GDP consumer product measurements, instead of a GDH (Happiness well-being indicator).
Corporate-Personhood legal structures were introduced by an anomaly of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Outdated professional services, number metrics, earth-killing monoculture, collapse, centralization’s muscle-power, loss of local self-sufficiency, loss of the Commons and emphasis on experts fixing part-after-part insufficient to create an integrated self-sustaining whole, all have expensive toxic results.
Our town’s 1998 Comp Plan was formed by CHARRETTE, yet the Charrette has been erased by an attention span lopped off by our present culture. Charrettes break the expert mode by banding together experienced designers, architects, engineers, city planners, energy experts, etc. not hired individually per se but as a design team mechanism to achieve the highest form of regenerative focus. All integrating participants see, feel, influence and co-ordinate with each others’ plans to highest end result.
Costs for specialization mount: facility breakdowns, neglect of soil fertility, downstream degradation, need to dredge sediments, costs to landfill, methane increase, wasteful energy use, air pollution, costs of health outcomes and the need for bigger accumulating local budgets.
Everyone loses. UNLESS we...
Six thousand years of sewer system domination is finally yielding to state-of-the-art Wastewater health. Next chapter deals with the performance Contract and EPA metrics, which leads to Wastewater To Be.
