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Subject: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
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- From: Johnny Stansell <jgstansell@yahoo.com>
- To: Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Livingontheland] (no subject)
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:58:02 -0800 (PST)
My own view on the oil thing is far worse than yours, mostly because of the convergence of looming freshwater scarcity, topsoil loss, the natural gas cliff that's coming, climate change, and last but not least the suicidal economic juggernaut paying for war on borrowed money and risking hyperinflation. However I do not find this depressing at all. In the long view civilizations rise and fall, glaciers form and recede, all empires fail, and everywhere people learn to adapt, move, or perish. There is a theory, if that's the word, that Gaia - the Earth - either acts like or is a living organism and reacts to threats. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, massive changes by human societies have had serious unintended consequences. Doing what we can to be constructive and less a part of the problem is something we can take pride in. There is safety in our ability to coax good food from soil, conserve our water and forest, and network and encourage others nearby to find refuge in simpler ways of living. I definitely am not obsessed with mauruding hordes stealing our supplies; unlike the survivalists I'm more concerned with not being one of them. paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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[Livingontheland] (no subject),
Johnny Stansell, 11/07/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] (no subject), TradingPostPaul, 11/08/2007
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Re: [Livingontheland] (no subject),
Dean, 11/08/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] (no subject), pete, 11/09/2007
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[Livingontheland] (no subject),
Johnny Stansell, 11/18/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] (no subject), TradingPostPaul, 11/18/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] (no subject), John Smith, 11/19/2007
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