Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@dotnet.com>]

> NO man/woman is an island.  We all depend on others somewhere along the line, and they 
> in turn depend on us.  Kropotkin uses the phrase "mutual aid."  What could be 
> more natural?
>
>   

I would boil it down to one question: "Are you Corporatist or Localist?" 
The difference is in whether you 'cooperate' to take advantage of other 
people's resources, or if you cooperate for the future of the entire 
species. A corporatist cooperates with other stakeholders to develop 
ways to exploit resources and 'conquer' problems, including nature, for 
more than they deserve (profit). A localist considers everyone they are 
in contact with to be neighbors, and makes decisions to develop 
solutions to his needs by cooperating with his environment on a mutually 
equal exchange or a Net Creativity basis.

Wild animals are not corporatists. The ones that evolve this philosophy 
eat themselves to death, and nature compensates with communal diseases 
to prevent them from doing it more than once. Humans have managed to 
usurp this system to some extent, but that only means we will get to a 
more disastrous level of collapse effects.

Localist philosophy has to acknowledge this, and develop cooperative 
means which will survive this collapse and transfer the lesson of it to 
the future.

Dan Conine
Belgium, WI