McKibben Interview and Bioregion Quiz response

From reading and listening to the podcast of the interview of McKibben’s book Eaarth, it is apparent that the average American may be uneducated on the bioregion around them. McKibben is a well-educated man who has many great ideas on how we can help save the environment. One thing that he stressed a lot was reducing your carbon footprint. One effective way to help reduce this is to localize the economies. However, local is a vague word and he is meaning is drastically shrink the size from the world or a country to a county or a town. This way travel time would be cut down and everything a person would need would be very close. Many people may not even know what is in their direct surroundings, inside their own bioregion. The bioregion quiz shows that many people may not know what is in their own bioregion. To be able to know about a bioregion information on the plants, animals, land, and weather needs to be known. What food is grown there? What plants inhabit the area? What animals inhabit the area? What is the weather like? When all of this information is know we will be able to localize the economies across the world. Each country will no longer have to rely on anther countries to provide for. Localization of the world’s economies will help save the environment.