Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[herb farmer <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

U write " it will be very hard to start a new economics when the old 
system collapses as it must and will do."

I've long tried to make the point that we can't just revert to 1900 or 
some dark age when fossil fuels fail, as some seem to think is our 
destiny. Problem being, we just don't know how. They had skills we know 
very little of, & social networks, traditions, etc. that held 
communities together. Can ANYONE today make a horsedrawn wagon without 
modern tools & technology? How did they farm before the steel moldboard 
plow? Or keep food without electric refrigeration?

Those out there who can stand some harsh reading should check out 
http://guymcpherson.com/  or https://twitter.com/Guy_McPherson on 
Twitter. &Going Dark Documentary 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaIxdV4_L0Y
"This 30 minute documentary follows a year in the life of Evolutionary 
Biologist, Dr. Guy R. McPherson, lecturing around the world about abrupt 
Climate Change, Collapse and Near Term Human Extinction. It is a 
personal telling from the view of the documentarian (me) of how it feels 
to have been a life-long environmentalist only to discover that our days 
may be numbered, and very shortly. Despite the Doomy topic, there is 
humor, and hope at the end of time, but most importantly, there is love."

paul, somewhere near McPherson in the US southwest


On 1/20/2015 12:29 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> I both hope and fear that this day is not too far away. Hope because 
> the destruction of our life support system is now so enormous that 
> every year that we keep going as usual can make the arrival at the 
> bottom very hard.
> I was reading an article yesterday about massive animal extinctions 
> that are becoming ever more common. A massive extinction is defined as 
> more than a billion individuals dying, or 90 % of the species 
> disappearing or 700 million ton of dead meat resulting. And this is 
> now common!
> And I fear because all our soils, water and air are now so polluted 
> that it will be very hard to start a new economics when the old system 
> collapses as it must and will do.
> John
>
> On 20/01/15 03:17, herb farmer wrote:
> > * The World After Industrial Civilization Goes, Usher in the "new" 
> > economics of local self-sufficiency
> > http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/785/1/
> >
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