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  • From: "Dan Conine" <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry quote
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:32:59 -0500

I posted a note on Minyanville.com today that economists all talk about "fundamentals" but they don't really mean anything except basic financial rules. Nobody speaks of the basic needs and resources that provide the value to 'build wealth' for the banks to loan money on the promises to pay it back. Money men think they are on top of a pyramid that will always yield more food or oil or 'markets' when the price goes up, but today's financial 'instruments' are a covering over that pyramid. A light cover would protect the pyramid from erosion, but the wet, heavy covering of derivatives and government 'help' has blocked out the sun and the foundations are moldy and worm-eaten.

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Quote from Wendell Berry's presentation at close of Slow Food Nation in San Francisco:

"For too long, humans have been spared, mainly by the cheapness of the
fossil fuels, from the universal necessity of local adaptation.

"It is ultimately an inescapable biological imperative that human land use
economies should correspond as closely as possible to the ecological mosaic.
To this, we no longer have even the illusion of a second choice.

"The increasing cost of energy and the vulnerability of long distance
transportation in an age of violence show the importance of local food and
forest communities and the reasonable extent of local economic
self-sufficiency everywhere."

http://slowfoodnation.org/videos


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  • Re: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry quote, Dan Conine, 09/22/2008

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