Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Dean" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: [Livingontheland] where we're headed with this


> A few words about recent posts.
>
> This list is not about partisan politics, and whatever our leanings there
> are certain areas where we discuss common ground.
>
> 1. Folks can disagree about the reasons for global warming (or climate
> change if  you prefer) or what to do about it, but our common concern is
> sustainable food production under these changing conditions.
>
> 2. Some see economic collapse imminent, some believe anything on Fox News,
> fine. But disruptions on some scale are coming and hardships are here for
> millions now. There's evidence true inflation has been running at or above
> 15% annually. The worst is hidden from us.
>
> 3. Water problems are growing for cities and agriculture, and the cost of
> getting more is going up.
>
> 4. Topsoil loss is an increasing problem for conventional agriculture and
> getting worse. Our country's topsoil won't last for another 50 years of
> conventional agriculture.
>
> 5. Peak Oil is acknowledged now in the mainstream, and the costs of
> anything based on fossil fuels is on the long upward trend. Natural gas is
> headed off the cliff in the foreseeable future. There are no *affordable*
> substitutes.
>
> We're not even thinking about foreign wars or natural disasters such as
> Yellowstone, New Madrid, or the Canary Islands tsunami. Any one of them 
> and
> all bets are off.
>
> The point is, regardless of the reasons or political fallout, these things
> are converging all at once. On this there is general agreement. Our
> children and theirs will live in a very different world from what we grew
> up in. And families and communities who learn to deal with their food
> supply sustainably for the long term, more or less independent of the
> outside, are more secure than the rest. That's where we're headed with
> this.
>
> Pretty tricky trying to put these thoughts into words. But we do have a 
> big
> tent here where many differences are welcome on this basis.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
>
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