Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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Maybe we should have some disagreement so as not to bore other readers :-\

On 3/29/2014 1:19 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> Exactly my idea too.
> John
>
> > Again I agree. But I think they're a fair opening to the subject for 
> > many of us. We do have over 500 on this list & not all will agree - 
> > right?  And I'm on the "hard landing" side of the debate. True, the 
> > Middle Ages were as u mention. But there's more to take issue with.
> >
> > Cultures don't just simply drop back to life in a previous age. 
> > People knew how to live where they were with what little they had. 
> > Problem is we don't know how to live as they did (or what will happen 
> > in a hundred other cultures worldwide that we don't pay attention 
> > to). In The Waning of the Middle Ages, Huizinga in 1919 described 
> > life in northern Europe. Main thing to me is they thought 
> > differently, had a different world view, customs, habits, 
> > communications. Less individualism, everyone part of a group of some 
> > kind, village, family etc. Anyone wandering or living alone might be 
> > thought insane or something. These post-apocalyptic fictions can't 
> > begin to deal with the utter foreignness of a lost society. And some 
> > predictions now can't begin to convey the trauma, the shock of losing 
> > so much of what we think makes us civilized. Someone once said 
> > civilization is only a thin veneer over humankind. Imagine universal 
> > PTSD on top of everything else.
> >
> > Personally I believe there may be hundreds of more or less indigenous 
> > societies today that we know little of, and some may be better 
> > adapted already to harsher climates and lack of modern thinking and 
> > living.
> >
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