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"Anti-Globalisation", like "anti-capitalism", is a convenient label used by the corporate media to refer to a whole host of alternative groups. The phrase "Anti-Globalisation" sometimes accompanies a rather Canute-like portrayal of these groups, sriving to 'hold back an inevitable tide' of globalisation. This webpage is a product of globalisation. It was typed in Bangladesh by a Brit, sent through I don't know how many countries onto a website in California. Who knows how many computers in how many different countries have delivered it to you? "Globalisation", like "terrorism" is a very plastic phrase, that means different things to different people. If "Globalisation" means standards that allow the world's computers to talk the same language, does this seem like a bad thing? What about laws which require all businessmen round the world to do business in the same way (also known as ''free trade'' laws?) Or conditioning which leads all people round the world to think the same way?... These are complex issues here, and we do them no justice by using a shallow, umbrella term such as "anti-capitalism".

James Kunstler has moved on the discussion by introducing the word Relocalization This is the untangling of the world's over extended global web of trade - the recreatiuon of local community links that ensure that you use goods and services which are produced locally wherever possible. In the context of Peak Oil, this has a simple and indisputable logic about it.