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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Agriculture's result
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:41:08 -0600


It seems the issue is one of scale. We have everything from backyard gardens
to corporate megafarms and in between. And the backyard seems to be the
cutting edge of sustainable organic growing today - not the megafarms. It's
true many civilizations and city states in past centuries depleted the land
they thrived on, and today most so called modern farmers keep doing the same
thing and expect different results. But surely we've learned a little about
sustainable food since Dust Bowl days. And we can grow our food sustainably
beyond the backyard fences and out on the prairies. However - between the
corporate politicians and the financial thieves running big agribusiness, we
will likely follow the path to ruin. Till "all that's left are the rats and
the lizards" (Ozymandias).

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 6/17/2010 at 7:14 AM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>I have read his books and corresponded with him in the past. I DO NOT
>BELIEVE THAT.
>
>--- On Thu, 6/17/10, Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>From: Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
>Subject: [Livingontheland] Agriculture's result
>To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
><livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 6:22 AM
>
>
>Sometimes I think there is no escape from our fate. Willingly or
>unwillingly, humans are destroyers of nature. As long as we disturb soil
>on any kind of scale beyond the backyard garden, no matter how good our
>intentions, we will follow the path of all lost civilizations. Our fields
>will turn to deserts, our seas to zones of death.
>                                                                       
>                                                                       
>    -- Gene Logsdon
>






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