Mind Mastery

The proximity strategy or localisation, is based on the idea that if we can produce something locally, we should.

Why would we waste time, energy and resources by importing products from other areas if we could produce them locally?

If we can’t produce items locally, we should then aim to source these products from as close as possible.

Think about it, if a town in Australia wants cheese and they have to import this cheese from Italy, how much energy is being wasted?

Imagine how many people are involved to get the cheese from Italy to a store in Australia, working to produce the cheese, then packaging it, then transporting it to the harbour, then boxing it up and loading it onto a ship, then transporting it 1,000’s of km’s, then unloading it, then transporting it again, then unboxing it and stacking it onto shelves.

How much wasted labour is this? How much wasted fuel? How much damage to the environment?How much wasted resources from all the packaging? How much money is blown? How extremely inefficient is this?

If a town in Australia wants cheese, we can produce that cheese locally with less environmental damage, less peoples time wasted and for much cheaper.

Not to mention that we wouldn't need to add any chemicals to the food to preserve it’s shelf life, because the cheese wouldn't need to be transported half way across the world!

Apply this same logic and reasoning to everything from cheese, to wood, to metal, to cars, to military equipment, to meat, to home appliances.

How much of the worlds products are made in china?

How high is the quality of products made in china?

How big of a problem is this really?

Not being able to produces products in a local environment and being dependent on importation is a method of weakening a peoples ability to be self sufficient.

The more self sufficient we can be, from countries to towns and right down to the individual, the more powerful and resilient we become to the unpredictability of the world.

If we want to feel safe and secure in our ability to always have access to healthy food, high quality building materials and the most advanced technology, we have to eliminate the unpredictability of relying on outside sources.

We need to start behaving responsibly and start building more certainty in not only our basic capacity to survive, but to thrive.

We have to replace energy inefficient and financially irrational production strategies with clear logic and proper organisation.

Water is everywhere.

So why is their droughts and all the problems that come with a lack of clean and fresh water?

Why do an unimaginably large amount of people not have access to clean water?

Why do farms suffer in some parts of the world because of droughts?

Why do some towns and cities need to ration their water supply and limit the length of their showers?

Most of the world is covered by water.

We have the technology of desalination plants to convert salt water into fresh water.

We have the technology to pull moisture out of the air, even in desert areas, and turn it into fresh drinking water, like is done already in The United Arab Emirates.

Why would we be reliant on a centralised dam or reservoir if we didn't need to be?

Especially when so much dangerous chemical altering occurs at these centralised water processing plants, why would water need to be treated and not simply be filtered to become safe?

That’s because it doesn't.

Investigate any personal water filter, large or small and you’ll discover that it only uses filtration systems and never any chemical treatment processes.

Chemicals are only ever added to water when the water is controlled by large corporations or governments.

As you can imagine, this has many health implications, many of which are still unknown, but all work to grow the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry.

If a house has the land, we can install the appropriate water capture and storage methods, gutters, drains, pipes and tanks.

Many houses already do this and enjoy the benefits that having more power over your own water supply brings, such as clean and natural water, not needing to pay for the most abundant resource in the world and by having a better awareness of how much water they can responsibly afford to use.

The same approach can be used for apartment blocks and all other structures.

Every building that has a roof can be a tool to utilise water capture and underground water tanks can be is installed to save on land space.

This is an effective strategy for build up city areas where large water tanks on ground level may not be feasible.

There is also an abundance of ground water waiting to be utilised efficiently, just below our feet.

Re-distribution of water to areas that don't receive much rain fall is important, such as central Australia, the deserts of Africa and the middle east.

Although implementing local strategies to harness under ground water and water from the air is a more efficient and simpler strategy than building huge pipelines that redirect water from the coast or other more rain dense areas.

Depending on the geographical area, a mixture of strategies may need to be implemented to turn drought ridden deserts into lush landscapes with plenty of water for everyone.

Even when it comes to sewerage, why do we centralise it’s processing when we could decentralise it?

We can even harness our own waste to fertilise crops and increase food yields, though that is up for debate!

There are home designs called earth ships which recycle all the water used, from grey water out of the kitchen sink and shower to black water from toilets.

This water is then redirected to indoor and outdoor gardens growing fruit and vegetables and excess can be passed through a filtration system to be reused safely to drink or bathe in.

For every problem there is a technical innovation already waiting or waiting to be discovered.

Rethinking our approach to food production via contributionism and localisation and implementing more decentralised independent water harnessing strategies are two major keys to becoming more self sufficient and stable Utopian societies.

The more we can produce and manufacture locally, the stronger, more independent and self assured we become.

The more effective our proximity strategy of producing and manufacturing locally, the more predictable and certain our sovereign town becomes.

When we can rely on local sources for what we want and need, the happier everyone becomes.

This is because the cost of everything drops significantly, there is a lot less wasted labour and a lot more productive labour, we have higher quality products and there is the satisfaction that we are supporting each other locally.

Decentralised local production is superior in every way to foreign importation.

Of course if there are rare items that cannot be produced locally, then an exception can be made to import those resources.

Importation should be the exception, not the rule.

Today, local production is the exception and not the rule.

We have it backwards and we need to invert our way of thinking to be the right way up.

Utopia is built on good ideas stacked on good ideas.

Dystopia is built on bad ideas stacked on bad ideas.

We have the knowledge, we have the people and we have the resources.

We just need to make the right choices, do we continue building upon bad ideas or do we start creating good ones?

The Eighth Utopian Principle Of Localisation overcomes the problems of outsourcing, off shoring and excessive importation and exportation.