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<p>Big government, big business, big everything:
Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980
classic, <em>Human Scale</em>, and today takes a new
look at how the crises that imperil modern America are
the inevitable result of bigness grown out of
control—and what can be done about it.</p>
<p>The result is a keenly updated, carefully argued case
for bringing human endeavors back to scales we can
comprehend and manage—whether in our built
environments, our politics, our business endeavors,
our energy plans, or our mobility.</p>
<p>Sale walks readers back through history to a time
when buildings were scaled to the human figure (as was
the Parthenon), democracies were scaled to the
societies they served, and enterprise was scaled to
communities. Against that backdrop, he dissects the
bigger-is-better paradigm that has defined modern
times and brought civilization to a crisis point. Says
Sale, retreating from our calamity will take
rebalancing our relationship to the environment;
adopting more human-scale technologies; right-sizing
our buildings, communities, and cities; and bringing
our critical services—from energy, food, and garbage
collection to transportation, health, and
education—back to human scale as well.</p>
<p>Like <em>Small is Beautiful</em> by E. F.
Schumacher, <em>Human Scale</em> has long been a
classic of modern decentralist thought and
communitarian values—a key tool in the kit of those
trying to localize, create meaningful governance in
bioregions, or rethink our reverence of and dependence
on growth, financially and otherwise.</p>
<p>Rewritten to interpret the past few decades, <em>Human
Scale</em> offers compelling new insights on how to
turn away from the giantism that has caused escalating
ecological distress and inequality, dysfunctional
governments, and unending warfare and shines a light
on many possible pathways that could allow us to scale
down, survive, and thrive.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em>-</strong></p>
<p>"The modern world is dysfunctional because, in part, it is
scaled for the convenience of machines and despots and not us.
Since publishing <em>SDS</em> (1973), his classic study of
the radical student organization of yore, philosopher Sale (<em>After
Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination</em>, 2006, etc.)
has been much concerned with matters of local governance and
autonomy, advocating the atomization of government to smaller
and smaller levels of decision-making. In this book, a revised
version of a polemic first published in 1980, he looks at all
the ways that we work at the wrong scale. Big universities,
for instance, rank low on the roster of scholarly achievement.
… [C]ities that grow beyond 100,000 tend to break down. As for
bureaucracy? Sale coins a term, ‘prytaneogenesis,' to cover
maladies wrought by government, which by rights should be
solving problems rather than creating them. Because it is so
broad, the author's argument is often diffuse; Sale is at his
best when, in good syndicalist spirit, he pushes for
responsibilities as well as rights, as when he reminds readers
that no government ever willingly gave up rights, which
instead were won in rebellion and struggle, whether of
colonies, unions, or individual heroes. By the same token,
Sale is too credulous of altruism as opposed to government
interventions: it is arguable that private organizations do
better at blood drives than social service agencies, though
the debate becomes moot when we consider that the Red Cross, a
hybrid of the public and private, does the brunt of that hard
work. A provocative book with many points to ponder the next
time you're caught in traffic or on hold with the insurance
claims department."</p>
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