Being an environmentalist, I was struck by David Suzuki’s life-defining metaphor of all environmentalists being stuck yelling in the trunk of a car headed for a brick wall. Now David is producing some cute tv ads from his trunk, trying to persuade us to buy better lights and to seal our windows. And, curiously, Obama is striking the same note. I ask you, should we have more efficient automobiles as we hurtle headlong towards resource wars, mass migrations and climate horror? Hmmm. Why not leap out of the trunk and found an intentional/utopian/environmental community? The world already has a few and takes little interest in them. What it needs is a public figure like Suzuki to do something heroic by doing what may seem like abandoning the so-called green movement. We have enough movements. What we need is something stationary. A foundation. No, not an abstract “foundation” like the Suzuki Foundation; an actual, living, self-sustaining and physical community. Utopia? Well, just something that operates according to green principles, without donations from sponsors and businesses.
David, if you can hear me out there, could you lead us out of Egypt, ban yourself from cars and airplanes, put your foot down and begin to create the promised land?
Become a myth.
