5. De-Industrialization
Information on In the Wake:
For a related discussion see my piece on Metal
theft and industrial decomposition. For information on turning
industrial garbage into useful things, see the DIY
Recycling index.
Also see my post on the military
and industrial renewables.
Information from other sources:
On helping injured land: Shahma Smithson writes
to point us to a great resource on mycorrhiza,
the symbiotic soil fungi that are essential for healthy forests
and other land. Check out the Instant
Guide to Mycorrhiza: The Connection for Functional Ecosystems
(PDF) which gives a great introduction to the subject and discusses
ways of helping mycorrhiza to restore and detoxify injured land.
There are also many other informative PDF downloads at Mycorrhiza.net's
information download page.
Further Reading, Bibliography
and Links
Related posts from the blog:
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
There's a very good and very relevant article by Acornista in
the latest Earth First! Journal on how peak oil means peak opportunity
for taking down civilization:
We don’t have to panic or lose hope in
the face of this scenario. What might oil decline mean for anti-capitalist
unrest and Earth First! agitation? Be imaginative! The heightened
vulnerability of dominant institutions offers extraordinary potential
for social insurrections, ecological uprisings and tactical ecotage.
The advent of oil decline should embolden us to step up action
to stop our culture’s worst oil-enabled abuses against the
Earth, from mountaintop removal mining and forest clearcutting
to industrial agriculture, suburban sprawl and resource wars.
In order to take full advantage of this opportunity
to bring down oil-based civilization, we must work to minimize
the ability of Earth-destroying industries to adapt to fossil
fuel scarcity. This means defending wilderness and undeveloped
areas—the Arctic Wildlife Refuge; coastal and offshore marine
zones; highland hotspots like the Green River Valley and Bridger-Teton
National Forest in Wyoming, Colorado’s Roan Plateau, Montana’s
Rocky Mountain Front and the Otero Mesa in New Mexico—from
new oil and natural gas speculation and extraction. Globally,
it means doing more to collaborate with and support allies—from
Colombia to Nigeria to Iraq—who are at the frontlines of
physical struggles against neocolonialist oil exploiters and the
militaries that shield them.
But our foremost task is to fight the ultra-dirty
oil substitutes that industries are gearing up to implement. All
of these will require huge investments of capital before they
become economically viable. All will demand the creation of a
completely new infrastructure before production and delivery can
begin. Many will necessitate extensive legislative and diplomatic
attention before they can be implemented in accordance with state,
national and international law. And some depend upon significant
adaptation on the part of consumers.
Every one of these new sources of energy is
vulnerable at some crucial point. By studying the economic, political,
legal, technological and even social requirements that these new
industries will have to meet, we can proactively target them where
they are weakest and prevent them from establishing a firm foothold.
Read the whole
article here.
Subjects to add, discuss or address:
Suggestions welcome.
Machines and their "soft spots" (how to quickly make various
machines inoperable and irreparable, by targetting vital or difficult-to
manufacture components)
How to render petrol (and other mostly military applicable) stockpiles
useless or contaminated
Simple explosives and incendiaries
Electrical and cell-tower dismantlement
Basic tactics and ecodefense
Removing roads, dams, bridges, and other resource extraction
infrastructure
Getting rid of / dealing with toxic waste and other junk
Ship scuttling ?
Tearing up parking lots and roads, and what to do with the asphalt
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