“Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”

Quoted in Resurgence magazine, issue 236 (June 2006) http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article408-BUILDING-MILES.html

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