Local Instead of Global

Throughout the United States, there are multiple types of soil and not many two places have the same kind.  Due to the different types of soil, farming and crop production differs from place to place.  This difference causes farming to be more complicated than a person would think.  There are many strategies and different procedures to successfully grow crops.  McKibben elaborates on this fact and connects the theory that the world cannot succeed with global industries, but should instead be run locally.  Farmers should not try to use a strategy for farming that is used in a completely different bioregion, because most likely, the crops will not produce the same outcome in a different soil.  Farmers should instead research the local soil and then determine the best ways to farm in that particular bioregion.  By doing this, farming would become more of a local industry, which Mckibben thinks will be more effective and cause less damage to the earth.  Farmers would learn how to grow more crops on the local soil and perhaps cause less crops to be flown in from distant farms. 

This same theory can be used for many other industries in the United States.  An example would be large companies.  Large companies are often thought of as being unable to fail and many times provide services to large populations.  However being able to serve many people may be good in the sense that less money is spent and the cost of a product is cheaper, but the product may not be ideal for an entire country.  A smaller company which is located closer to the customers would be able to provide better products and would stimulate the local economy, instead of giving money to a large corporation which is not ideal for everyone, but reins because of the money and power held.