Spinal Fire Scientia Est Potentia

Okay, the movie was horrible but this piece of fiction is great.
The Postman by David Brin takes place in Western North America (Oregon, Washington and a wee bit of British Colombia) during post-apocalypse after the fallout. Gordon is a survivor of Minneapolis after his troop could not hold out a grainer. After some years of traveling he picks up a Mail Carriers jacket and bag and sets forth to surrounding towns.

The world painted by David Brin shows how our society can easily slip into a feudalistic nature and how cities become dependent on fending for themselves. Alas, he describes little on how permaculture can save a community. Brin focuses on the consept tha government (local and state -worthy) can reform as republics.

My belief is that large cities will be no longer habitable by a large population, due to radioactivity or inner-corruption of greed and power (hummmmm). Unless people begin to understand that permaculture ("vicotry" gardens, communal gardens, etc.) will insure a self-suntanning piece of civilization and that über consumerism will dry up our environment and resources.