b'Answers to these questions lie not in the fundamentalism of false choicescapitalism vs. socialism, black vs. white, Jihad vs. McWorld, urban vs. rural, 1% vs. 99%but in a fundamental process of rebal-ancing and reconnection. Its time to leave 18th- and 19th-century ideological struggles on the doorsteps of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The industrial and the institutional and the global have their place, but when their place usurps our place, we need to reassert ourselves. This is why E.F. Schumacher observed, only a few paragraphs before that seminal moment when he made the case that man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful:The case for hope rests on the fact thatordinary people are often able to takea wider view, and a more humanistic view, than is normally being taken by experts.To make things different this time, we ordinary people need to complete what we started on Earth Day 1970. More Earth Days? Absolutely. Our voices shouted out in favor of much more proactive governmental and corporate action? Absolutely. But if weve learned anything over the last 50 years, isnt it that well need more than protesting, legislating and activism if we are going to make things different this time? Maybe its a magic ingredient for social change. Maybe its just luck of the draw. Maybe its inklings of a Great American Do-Over. Or seeds of Anthropocene imagination starting to sprout. But by hook or by crook, we have an avenue for action at our disposal, today, that couldnt have been envisioned back in 1970. This is localism, which isnt an ism in the same category as capitalism and socialism, which is the point. 17'