I really appreciate all the answers.

I know that none of it makes perfect rational sense to try to create a new industrialization on a local scale at first. But I believe that as global systems rewire themselves with this new world that we can become more resilient by doing things that might not be 100% rational.

If I may quote poet Marge Piercy

The will to be totally rational
is the will to be made out of glass and steel:
and to use others as if they were glass and steel.