Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

I read the whole article yesterday Paul. One thing that struck me is that 
Sharon Astyk talks about people migrating when things go bust. What I fully 
expect is a massive die off. How far are starving people going to march 
through unknown and hostile country?
I have a funny story about two US wwoofers who tried to get to a friend's 
farm less than two miles outside Bantry (Ireland). They got off the bus in 
the little town and started walking according to directions given. After 
more than an hour they rang up the friend saying that they could go no 
further. The food path had ended and there were no more street lights...
In a best case scenario I believe that no more than 200 to 500 million 
humans, world wide, will be still there when the smoke clears.
The worst case scenario is that we very well may all be gone.
john

> A thoughtful piece with a lot to think about.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> When You Should Not Adapt in Place
> by Sharon Astyk
> http://www.energybulletin.net/node/52992
>
> Most of the people who take Adapting-In-Place, reasonably enough, are 
> doing so because they intend to stay where they are or fairly nearby in 
> the coming decades. They know that they may not be in the perfect place, 
> but for a host of reasons - inability to sell a house, job or family 
> commitments, love of place...you name it, they are going to stay. Or maybe 
> it is the best possible place for them. But I do think it is important to 
> begin the class with the assumption that everything is on the table. 
> Because as little as each of us likes to admit it, it is. There will be 
> many migrations in the coming decades, many of them unwilling and 
> unwanted. And it is always easier (not easy) to consciously choose to step 
> away before you are forced to leave than it is to abandon in pain and 
> storm and disaster your home and never be fully able to return. So it is 
> important to ask - who should not stay in place?
>
>
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