permaculture

[yarrow@sfo.com]

At 8:57 AM -0600 2/19/08, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> ....the basic problem in the US is that there is zero political will to deal
> with the problem. Heck -- nobody in the government is even willing to
> talk about it, let alone do anything about it.

Hmm, I wonder. It took only a few years to make "global warming" a 
household word with a well-promoted documentary. I'd heard about it 
for decades in the science community, but when Gore was VP, I didn't 
hear anything about it from him or any other politicians. Yet as far 
as I can tell, it's still at the "talking" stage. So "all" it will 
take to spotlight food security is a similar promo effort by some 
other high-profile person who makes it the focus of their life for 
several years.

And as for doing anything about it...isn't the dwindling supply of 
oil the reason the neocons were so eager to take over Iraq? They're 
still not talking about it, though.

I think real solutions will originate from open discussions at the 
community level, where it's possible to create small-scale changes 
that can ripple outward.