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Infrastructure for Anarchists - 2 hours Outline of a talk I'll be giving on Wednesday 7th of January at The Temporary School of Thought in London. See Six Ways To Die for a visual aid which talks about a lot of the material. Here's the audio of the talk. - two promises: -1> I'm going to teach you a way of seeing -2> Once you understand it, politics is going to look very, very different -part one - seeing the invisible grids - --(run as visualization exercises) - --Take the buiding we're in right now -- --Imagine how it would be if the building had nothing. -- --Four ways of moving a service ---get it on site ---pipes/wires ---delivery ---shopping --- --What are the pipes/wires/wireless that make it what it is? ---clean water in ---sewage out ----if you don't do this, people die ---electricity in ----warmth, cooling, light, cooking, devices ---natural gas in ----you can only heat with this - cooking, heating ---- --These services make this building habitable. --- -part two - who owns what keeps you alive --So what's on the other end of these pipes, wires and deliveries? -- --POLITICS is what is on the other end of these pipes, wires and deliveries. -- --Clean water in, dirty water out. -- --Water, in the UK, is rivers, wells, aquifers, water treatment plants ---London is more or less where they invented this stuff ---John Snow identified a cholera cluster around a well in 1854 ----and thereby gave birth to epidemeology ---Most water infrastructure in the UK is fairly local --- --Sewage is fairly simple ---Factories that sit on the pipes and purify the waste ---Then dump it into the sea ---Nutrient drain straight from the land into the sea ---But of all technologies it's the most safety critical ---Get it wrong and everybody dies --In the developing world ---privitization of water is incredibly political ---water supplies can't serve the population --- --Power, in the UK, is mostly coal, nuclear and gas. --Coal, nuclear and gas are *political* technologies. ---Coal ----Miner's strike, anybody (you're all too young!) ---Nuclear ----Weapons, massive govt. subsidies ----Public safety risks (windscale, chernobyl, 3 mile island) ---Gas ----Russian gas production, price volatility, intl. tensions! --Transportation infrastructure is also incredibly political ---oil ----global warming ----fighting over the resource ----vast, vast, vast cheap energy input ----a gallon can move two tons of steel 60 miles ----you wonder why they fight over it --------- --Government largely exists to finance and implement infrastructure projects ---and to tax us to pay for them ----whether we like it or not ---- --Unless you can do infrastructure for a whole population you need govt. -- --The fact is that we are incredibly _dependent_ on all of these levels ---but we have very little _control_ of them ---which leaves us vulnerable ----*all the time* - -part three - relocalization for political autonomy - --Infrastructure is the ANCHOR OF CAPITALISM. ---costs billions of pounds to build power plants, sewers ---we create a "town" as a legal entity ---borrow billions from banks - with interest ---then build the CAPACITY - water, power, disposal, whatever ---per unit of service, this produces cheap services ---but now we've become reliant on ----the city, which raises and relies on taxes ----the government, which oversees the whole system ----the banks, which lent the money ----the big companies, which build the infrastructure ----and the owners of the systems which keep us alive -----who are not us, are they now? ----- --And the consequences of not doing this? -- --SIX WAYS TO DIE!!!!!! ---too hot ---too cold ---hunger ---thirst ---illness ---injury --- --To keep these things away from us, we made society ---but we did it wrong, or at least half-assed --- --Get reform wrong, and these things come back ---life expectancy in Russia has fallen by like 10 years ---http://www.developmentandtransition.net/img/Slay%20graph31.jpg --- --Map out the structures we've already identified into the 6WTD framework -- --The goal is to move as much stuff as possible back towards the center -- --So that *we* control it, not _them_ = individual political authority ---is rooted in our ability to sustain our own lives ----without controlling anybody ----or being controlled ---THIS IS GANDHI - Swadeshi --- --SHELTER, SUPPLY AND SAFETY --- --6WTD is really a simplified "Swadeshi Map." - -part four - urban and rural infrastructure - --what's the natural carrying capacity of the land on which London is built? ---50,000? ---everybody else who lives here is living on the *infrastructure* ---not on the land - --let's talk food ---UK has 16m acres of arable land for 60m people ---5 people per acre, say - we're in the clear ---Water is not an issue in wise-use cases. ----But the people growing the food ----Are not always the people eating it -----DEPENDENCY REQUIRES CONTROL ----- --nearly all the food going on in the UK is shopping and delivery ---no local food growth, and ---we don't really deliver food by pipes and wires (yet.) --- --so this is the baseline: food, and food distribution networks. -- --manual farming takes a ton of time and isn't very productive ---unless you get smart ---**really** smart ----square foot gardening ----raised beds in general ----permaculture ----multi-cropping ----Ivette Perfecto's work on global agricultural potential ---it's hard to make a living growing your own food ----takes a lot of time -----and pays in food ------which is cheap ------because of tractors ---see SPIN farming (small plot, high intensity) for another view --- --electricity? ---solar, solar, solar - konarka, nanosolar ---how much do you really need? 10, 20, 30 watts? 2000? 5000? 10000? ---heating with electricity is very very expensive and hard ---wind is up when solar is down ----but small scale wind is hard ---- --the hard ones ---wet and dangerous ---no power won't usually harm you ---dirty water and bad toilets will kill you on a bad day -- --water ---capture, store, transport, purify ---wells, rivers, ponds and lakes - not the sea unless you desalinate ---very, very location dependent ----but carrying water is one of the world's major jobs ----as women all over the developing world know ---we use plumbing for a reason -- --toilets ---super safety-critical ---good technologies exist ----composting toilets ----thermophilic composting toilets ---tons more work could be and needs to be done --- --put it all together, though, and what you have is ---individual and tribe-scale infrastructure ---under your own autonomous political control ---with excellent portability ---that you may be able to make a lot of yourself ---that could scale to millions of people --- --That's a new potential.