Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

People seem to view this as an absolute (present company excepted) a lot of the time. Its part of what makes industrial economies utterly pathetic, and 'primitive living' absolutists seem unrealistic.

The more self sufficient the individual, the more self sufficient the community, the less its impacted by external failure, the more it can reinforce itself and the more redundant its ability to meet its needs - hence less failure prone it is. Communities run like auto assembly lines are doomed to fail, just like individuals running off into the woods and disconnecting from the outside world are prone to fail. If I were to choose a mantra here it would be: keep striving to do as much as you can on your own, try to avoid competition with your neighbors, and stay conservative but not absolutist about what gets imported and what gets exported.



--- On Thu, 2/4/10, Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com> wrote:

From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The myth of self reliance
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 10:25 AM

The way I've put it is this:
"Nobody is secure if their neighbor is hungry."

Politicians could use this philosophy much more often.

Dan C.

> From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> Subject: [Livingontheland] The Myth of Self Reliance
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> I don't even like this guy but he explains in a lot of words what I've said all along, that community self sufficiency is needed and possible to some extent, and total individual self sufficiency is a dead end. Comments, disagreements welcome as always ;-)
>
> The Myth of Self Reliance
> by Toby Hemenway Published Nov 2 2010
> http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51408
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