My country seems to be rich. But being used to excessive life style does not mean people are happy and truely abundant. The greed of wanting to, staying to be rich is fostering the crisis. We depend so much on import. We don't live on our homegrown food but packed things coming all the way from abroad, America, China, Australia or even from Ecuador. We depend our life on Jet fuel, global marketing system which destroyed national farming. Our farmers threw their hoes when the foreign vegetables and crops were one third of the price of their hard worked harvest. Their land is covered with concrete to make some buildings or parking lot.

We could manage so far with our money which we made by selling electronics, cars and other staff. But when the world economy is depressed, those things are the ones people cut down to expense. And if the world economy gets worse and the production of oil passes its peak, it will get difficult to even import from far away countries and those countries may have to keep the food within them for survival.

We could manage 'cause we had money and something else to produce. But there are poorer countries which were very much harmed by this thing called economical globalization. I am not talking nationalism here. I only mean the geography. If you can get the minimum essential supply within the reachable community, that's healthy and sustainable. And other things come from far away can be a surprise gift for the special occasion to make life more colorful and enjoyable.

There may be some benefits in this monster called globalization(especially for the big countries), but I think people should respect this complete cosmos of community. To produce and consume essential staff under one's own control. Some countries make mass produced food, mass produced cloth, mass produced everything and sell things cheaply which destroyed this cosmos of community. Gandhi-ji knew the danger from the very beginning.

To have the dual perspective is important. The micro view and the macro view, to distinguish what is essential and what is additional luxury. Nothing wrong in luxuary as long as essentials are well kept.

Following is what is happening in Jamaica, used be poor but beautiful farming country.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LEs4-kefhes&eurl=https://mixi.jp/view_diary.pl?id=1077978904&owner_id=213839