How to De-Leverage Your Life and Live More Local
The globalized supply chain is a mess. There are ways you can rely on it a little less.
Take a glance at the headlines in recent weeks and one thing has been very clear: The supply chain is in crisis.
Returning your pants is difficult. Shipping containers are stuck. Prices for auto parts and home renovation materials are soaring and take months to arrive. The convenience economy is decidedly not that convenient anymore.
Most of the articles detailing the dizzying complexities of our current supply chain mess place the focus on how to get it back in order ASAP. Obviously, the smart people explain, the natural world order is to have Teslas and ceiling fans and single-use coffee pod machines the very moment we need them — or at least within a 24 hour delivery window.
Curiously, few make the suggestion that perhaps we should take this disruption as a sign that this is a bad way to live? Maybe we should begin to think of ways to reduce our dependency on this just-in-time, instant gratification global supply chain that is, by the way, wrecking the planet? Most importantly, maybe we should start to do that even if we can’t give it up completely.
