Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 12:47 PM 9/22/2007, you wrote:

> The poor people in our country probably spend half their income on food.
> That isn't because they should get cheaper food, but because the people
> are of so little value to our System of Systems. Meanwhile, people who
> already have money get even more money not because those people have
> anything more to offer as human beings, but because their money is more
> valuable than they are (and Mr Ben a.k.a. 'Helicopter' Bernanke has just
> kicked our savings in the teeth, making human beings even less valued).
> The value of people to the land has been almost completely forgotten as
> petroleum has provided the Instant Gratification of pesticides, power,
> and cheap ignorance (ignorance used to be expensive to a frontier
> person, now it's a suburban psychological asset).

Amen. Thank you for your cogent comments. The fundamental flaw with 
the idea of "alternate" fuels is that we can continue our current 
lifestyle, just using a different power source. Nothing will change 
(unless it changes catastrophically) until that model changes.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com