[Homestead] Closed loops: homesteading, permaculture, biodynamics and more
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Mon Mar 10 16:34:17 EDT 2008
On Mar 10, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Clansgian at wmconnect.com wrote:
> This post caught me in a (thankfully) rare flight of pessimism. I
> had just
> finished reading an article (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/
> 3702#more) that
> shows how the average yield of grains per hectare has gone from 1
> 1/4 tons
> (metric) when I was a child to more than 3 tons now of days and it
> has done this
> by genetic skulduggery and artificial nitrogen fertilizer.
The wrong alarms are being rung. The wrong prescriptions are being
written. We don't need more food; we need fewer people. We have pushed
Earth's carrying capacity to diminishing returns. With far fewer
people there is little or no reason to worry about peak oil, rising
gas prices, rising food prices, carbon emissions, and many other
issues. What we need is a global pandemic that kills about three-
quarters of our species.
Use your nearest small town as an example. If there is a chamber of
commerce then there are those who push for more population, claiming
that more people will bring more opportunities, more businesses, yada,
yada, yada. Is that good? Look at the place that has achieved twice as
much population. Now keep doubling until you get to the big cities.
Still think growth is a good idea?
Most of us are being sucked into thinking about what big corporations
want us to think about. We have a choice.
Edward Abbey said that growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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