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Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety
- From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
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- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:07:28 -0400
<Harvey wrote> "Madness this organized and this blind and on this scale can only end in Collapse. Maybe that won't be such a bad thing. . ."
I agree Harvey, it will end in "collapse" but the ripple effect would have a total collapse including, I think, social services. I also think that this would be a horrible thing to see happen; aside from the fact that we would then be totally at the mercy of other countries and not just with regards to food.
Elizabeth
I couldn't agree more that a serious collapse of the current system would be a "horrible thing," and I apologize if my musing about it being not such a bad thing implied that I would welcome it. But *continuation* of the current system would be a pretty "horrible thing" as well.
One specific way in which collapse could have a silver lining is that it might tend to limit agriculture-as-war-on-nature, which is where this thread started, and which keeps us on topic.
~Harvey
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A society that permits the advantages of ecological abuse to go to individuals, while the costs are shared by the whole society, is effectively subsidizing the destruction of its environment. ~John Michael Greer
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Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety,
Harvey Ussery, 07/13/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety, Pete Vukovich, 07/14/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety, Elizabeth B., 07/17/2009
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Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety,
Harvey Ussery, 07/17/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety, TradingPostPaul, 07/17/2009
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