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Posted by Thos on March 9, 2010, 11:04 am
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You're a fool.
<Charlie> wrote in message
> Slime to some, of interest to others. Make of it what you will....
>
> ....and good luck.
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> Charlie, the zealot
> --
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> http://transition-times.com/2010/03/08/the-local-food-and-farming-revolution/
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>
> excerpt:
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> by Michael Brownlee
> Here's my quick, thumbnail sketch of the situation, the highly
> condensed version:
>
> Because the way we eat and the way we grow our food is a major
> contributor to climate change and global warming.
>
> Because industrial food production is so energy-intensive and so
> dependent on oil for fertilizer, pesticides, planting and harvesting,
> processing, packaging, and transportation.
>
> Because global oil production likely peaked in July 2008, which means
> that energy will be increasingly expensive in the future.
>
> Because the age of cheap fossil fuels has come to an end.
>
> Because the economy has been based on an abundant supply of cheap
> fossil fuels.
>
> Because therefore food prices will soon increase dramatically, and
> food shortages will begin to happen-even here-perhaps in the next
> couple of years.
>
> Because the U.S. is becoming a net food importer.
>
> Because humanity is now consuming more food than we are producing.
>
> Because industrial agriculture-like the globalized economy-is at a
> crossroads and is about to go into an unexpected decline.
>
> Because much of the food that industrial agriculture produces is
> destroying our national's health .
>
> Because the way we grow much of our food is destroying and washing
> away our precious topsoil.
>
> Because we can no longer conscionably support a food system that
> causes hunger, starvation, and disease in other parts of the world.
>
> Because the way we eat is destroying our connection with the earth,
> with the natural processes and cycles of earth and sky, with those who
> grow our food, with the essence of life.
>
> Because the way we eat has seriously weakened our communities.
>
> Because maybe less than one percent of our current diet is local.
>
> Because in Colorado we spend more than ten billion dollars on food
> each year, almost all of which is fleeing outside the state, lost to
> our local economies.
>
> And because we know all this.
>
> We must learn everything we can about our food predicament. We must
> all learn to grow at least some of our own food. We must all support
> the revitalization of local agriculture. We must end our dependence on
> fossil fuels, chemical fertilizers, and mechanization in our food
> production. We must commit to healing and rebuilding the soil
> everywhere we can. We must dramatically increase local food production
> for local consumption.
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