...of humanity elsewhere:
Current World Energy Demand, Ethical World Energy Demand, Depleted Uranium and the Centuries to Come
In it, I criticized, in connection with the dangerous and ignorant fool Amory Lovins...
...myopic bourgeois provincialism...
As for "redesigning society" well, leave me out of that one. I would ask those who propose such "redesign" who will do such designing, and then how said design would compare with the other seven billion redesigns possible from the other seven billion human beings.
The world has had some very bitter experience with pseudointellectual top down redesigns of society, cf, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Jung-Un, etc. At a gut level, these kinds of specious solutions are a kind of arrogance.
Stalin - often praised as a genius in his life time, which probably ended with his urine soaked body being smothered by Beria, Beria's one act of decency in a depraved life - often spoke to his forced admirers of his grand success at redesigning society. I, for one, am not impressed.
Decentralization is a very, very, very, very, very bad idea, at least where energy and the environment is concerned, since by nature, distributed energy is distributed waste ultimately. This is a technical fact, and has nothing to do with culture or socioeconomic ideology.
Were it up to me, I would change many things about the world, but it is not up to me, nor, necessarily, as I have implied, should it be up to me. I would hope that humanity over all will become wiser, a weak hope perhaps, but, from my perspective, the only ethical and reasonable hope.
Have a nice day.