Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

"Collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion."

The ironic part is that the only way you'll get people to have equal access to resources is if there aren't any (people OR resources).
Consumerism doesn't end when people know better: it ends when they can't find anything to buy or sell. The Raccoonocracy will continue until the raccoons all get their paws stuck in the jars and refuse to let go of the shiny rocks. Until then, the clever little bastards will keep reproducing.

Dan C.
Belgium, WI

* NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? uhhh... YES

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists
 
Which strongly suggests - among other things - a mass transition to a low-tech, low resource consumption model of agriculture, or agroecology. Modern agriculture is a huge part of fossil fuel, water, phosphate, & other resource consumption. If some of us can do it, then it's absolutely feasible. Plus it can allow some degree of economic leveling at the local level when the majority can feed themselves. After all they've fed themselves since they learned to stand upright on two legs.