Building a world of resilient communities.    What does it
matter?  - Wendell Berry "A Poem of Difficult Hope"  In the
circles I run and write in, it is a common device to claim that
other thinkers and writers have failed to understand the real,
deepest cause of our problems, and have instead embarked upon
too superficial a narrative. What's fascinating about this is
that the thinkers doing so are almost always correct - that is,
they nearly always right that someone has missed a deep
underlying cause. The reason for this is that causes are nearly
as ample as effects. Thus, the person who laments America's
dependence on foreign oil sources can be usefully corrected by
someone who observes that the problem is everyone's dependence
on a finite resource, rather than a geopolitical error of
resource development. The same person, speaking of finite
resources can be accurately corrected by someone who observes
that a growing population is the "real problem" - that with few
enough people, resource constraints would