Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

IMHO, we shouldn't seek to change (national/federal) govt, as govt is there 
to serve the elites who profit by keeping us out of the loop, keeping us 
strictly as Their "consumers."  The entire corporate/govt system is a 
symbiotic relationship headed over the cliff.  The tipping point is 
approaching, and it will occur as a result of increasing job losses in the 
corporate sector (all corporations- the corporate world).  Higher pay props 
up the tax base, which allows theft-through-subsidies to pour into the 
corporate coffers (which allows corporations to afford their massive 
lobbying/political corruption game).

The "change" will come when there is no more growth media available.  And it 
appears that energy will be the media whose deficiency will be the greatest 
contributor to the halting of growth.  We're currently figuring out that a 
society built from and geared to operating on $20/bbl oil with $80/bbl oil 
just ain't going to work.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Aug 16, 2010 10:30:52 AM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>Thanks for another thoughtful post, Dieter.
>
>I think the point of human evolution now is in becoming 
>producer/consumers, rather than consumers.  Self-reliance is large in 
>that consideration, but self-reliance is not the ball and chain implied 
>by policy supporting consumers.  Self-reliance gives us the opportunity, 
>and grounds, to create healthy, human-scale community which supports 
>some level of sustainable specialization.
>
>We consume, but we produce enough to, with each crop, build up the 
>natural resilience of the land we work, which means, I think, that we 
>consume only our part of the harvest, leaving enough to support the 
>biodiversity that sustains the resilience of the land.  When we find 
>comfort and fulfillment in being producer/consumers, we have evolved, as 
>have many on this list.
>
>But that does not mean being comfortable with the fact that "our" 
>
>government's policies support the consumer, rather than the 
>producer/consumer.  Until we attain a tipping point in cultural 
>evolution - which may be near - the consumer is supported by policy that 
>matters.
>
>So sustainable models require policy support for producer/consumers at 
>each level of government.  I think.
>
>Smiles.
>Tommy
>