We really should become more self-sufficient

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Our society is a very complex web of businesses, politics, education, justice, law, healthcare ...etc The more complex the society the easier it is to disrupt it with terrorism, global warming treat, viral diseases, energycrisis, religious fanatism, unemployment ... Basically the higher you are on the ladder the lower you can fall. Primitive cultures will hardly be affected with all of the above. All this makes our societies very vunerable. I believe we should become more self-sufficient. Take our electricity for example. It's very easy for terrorists or other nations to take out our electricity supply with bombings, computerattacks and sooner or later we will see this happening. Most of the production can also be held hostage also as it's based on oil & coal and prices will be set by prices of oil & coal. Also this technology is very poluting. Large scale windmill parks and solarpanels are expensive and not very efficient. Nuclear power is more and more dangerous because of terrorist attacks and it's nuclear waste. What if we all produced our own electricity with a wind or water turbine and some solarpanels, excess energy could be delivered to the network and could actually make you money. Since it's a network much like the internet taking out an individual member would not harm electricity production. Same with gas we could turn our biological waste into methanegas for cooking and heating. Decentralised energy production would make a country less vunerable, then centralized energyproduction. I believe the internet model can be applied to many existing centralised models to convert them into decentralized network models.