permaculture

["Healing Hawk" <healinghawk@earthlink.net>]

Add to this the fact that farm chemicals have eliminated earthworms in the
Midwest and you have automatic disaster.  The top layer of dead soil,
saturated with water, becomes pavement, in effect, and the rest of the water
runs off.  Carcinogenic aquifers are not recharged.  Predatory development
in flood plains costs more than insurance companies can pay, so the suckers
holding mortgages are also left "holding the bag."  

This is the polographic disaster called capitalism in a nutshell.  What's
free about free markets, beyond capitalists' freedom to predate nature and
its creatures?  How much longer can we afford capitalism?  How do we strip
corporations of their power over us?  WWII was supposed to have defeated
fascism.  Instead, Mussolini lives on in the vast undemocratic system of
business lobbies, policy groups, think tanks, and policy boards that
currently runs the US, and the world.  This is corporatism, US style.  In
his grave, Mussolini smiles.

For capitalism to continue its parasitic growth, a sucker (a host, in
ecological terms) is required.  When a human invention makes a sucker out of
nature, we get what we've got, and this is only nature's hint of what's to
come if we don't stop doing what we're doing and go the other way in a huge
hurry.  Nature will always have the last laugh.

Tommy Tolson
Austin, TX