Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Paul wrote: "What is 'living in tune with nature'?"

My semi-scientific, logical answer is that all species produce some kind 
of usefulness for their (nature's) future over and above what they 
consume in resources. Erwin Schroedinger (yes, the guy with the cat in 
the box) called Life the "Anti-Entropy" force. For humans to be 
considered as 'in tune' with nature, they would have to collectively be 
putting more back than they take.
Anyone who believes that some form of capitalism/democracy/humanism is 
going to do that is fooling themselves. Everything about our idea of 
'civilization' is oriented toward taking advantage of nature for the 
profit of humans until nature fails, then trying to 'fix' something up 
just to keep doing the same things.

Lots of people like to say they 'want to live in tune with nature', but 
doing so goes against everything in the human imagination since we 
evolved it. To live in tune with nature requires that humans all get a 
lobotomy and become apes again.

"This will all end in tears. I know it."  -Marvin the Paranoid Android