So a leftist answers me:

“Well, that’s easy for a white Anglo to say, but history indicates that your white Anglo ‘community’ will turn out nicely privileged, thank you, while minority ‘communities’ get the shaft, as usual.”

And I say: Why? The whole new-paradigm idea is about scales, limits, balances, boundaries. If my community, no matter what color, values self-reliance -- and therefore non-encroachment vis-a-vis other communities, including other biotic communities -- why should ‘privilege’ be an issue at all? To the extent that we interact (and there should be some trade, sure, not autarky) the mindset should be one of communities helping each other to thrive.

“That sounds like a pipe-dream.”

Well, if it is then we’re doomed. We’ll encroach until we degrade habitat such that our own species can’t survive. That sure could be the case. But let’s hope that, instead, an ethos of sustainability -- toward living more lightly and more locally, mindful of ecological limits and balances -- is in the process of developing.

In a Green world there would be cultural diversity, communities would not all look the same, material standards of living would vary. But not so much ... because all would face the limitations of localism and a natural kind of boundedness. No wild globalized-scale fortunes, empires, exploitations. Sanity scales.