[OKC] The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely, and Why Future Prosperity Means Socializing with Your Neighbors

[Shauna Lawyer Struby]

The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely, and Why Future Prosperity
Means Socializing with Your Neighbors


Access to cheap energy made us rich, wrecked our climate, and made us the
first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors -- that has
to change.

April 27, 2010  |  

 Excerpted from the book  <http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780805090567>
EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by
<http://www.billmckibben.com/> Bill McKibben. Reprinted by arrangement with
Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2010 by Bill
McKibben.

 

Community may suffer from overuse more sorely than any word in the
dictionary. Politicians left and right sprinkle it through their remarks the
way a bad Chinese restaurant uses MSG, to mask the lack of wholesome
ingredients. But we need to rescue it; we need to make sure that community
will become, on this tougher planet, one of the most prosaic terms in the
lexicon, like hoe orbicycle or computer. Access to endless amounts of cheap
energy made us rich, and wrecked our climate, and it also made us the first
people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors.

 

Full story here :::
http://www.alternet.org/story/146623/the_surprising_reason_why_americans_are
_so_lonely,_and_why_future_prosperity_means_socializing_with_your_neighbors

 

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