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We’re talking a lot about sustainability, whose interdependent concept is sovereignty – the right of self-determination. Some people don’t get that sovereignty depends on sustainability – you can’t control your own community if you’re dependent on exploiting other people for your food, energy and goods.

But ultimately sustainability also depends on sovereignty. If the banks create the credit that buys the houses, the money is an IOU to them. Therefore they, under their other hat as corporations, create the jobs. Growing food, creating energy and making products is a lot of work. If our collective labor serves corporate profits we’re left to do the real work of becoming sustainable in our spare time. That’s not going to work!

Here’s a way that I adapted a Buckminster Fuller quote to describe the goal:

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