Consciously compost your cities! Manage your herds to stop desertification. Keep the soils alive!
How interesting that the "charitable" arms of our economic bureaucracies are reaching out to Africa right now. I guess our fertilizer companies need more lands hooked on chemicals. Remember how some American and Indian farmers drank pesticides when they realized how tight was the double bind into which they had so desperately bought? How much I wish Africa well in absorbing the blows. I hope that we all can smell any attempts to foist more industrial colonial schemes on our places. I pray that we have learned something about soil biology in the ensuing years since the last Green Revolt that made the soil boom, bust and blow with chemical fixes and heavy metal mechanics. I know we have. Mr Gates' own landscaper knows more about the soil than all the bureaucrats of the NGOs involved. The service who cares for the trees atop the Rockefeller Center knows better. Ask them to help. I implore the Gates and Rockefeller Families and their extentions, their Foundations to take what Schraven and Sottilo have to say before they set in motion their huge power. I have written here of efforts that have taken the soil foodweb into account. I suggest that these be read and the links be considered.
Can we step out of those chemically strictured mechanics of the constricted fifties and into our ecologies knowing our biologies will work for us as we use this understanding and ground our thought? We cannot even keep our own US rivers from dying! Look at the Dead Zones around their mouths. Look at the illness we cause from over refining our food! Let us all learn.
In my letters from the Old Core to the Gap, the Seam states, yes, and even the Failed States, I would string a common thread throughout: that we get briefed on how the Soil Food Web works, be introduced to the families therein and understand how qualities of our lives depend on theirs...and theirs on us if we care to notice.
However, it seems that in our arrogance of becoming the holder of Levianthan Force, we have forgotten that our great cult agribusiness is several 20,000 leagues above the ground and headed toward the seas, Icarus in freefall. In the industrial waves of change, we have built structures on top of wobbly structure and each more toxic than the last. It is important now to NOT "go back" to some utopian time, but to dissemble and reassemble the artiface in ways that can clean up some of that mess, setting some best practices for people who follow as we leave. This is live culturing. In this way, by following the mandate of agriculture, we can fall up onto and into complexities that we have yet to even imagine. Any body, any scale from a person to a large corporation can decide to err on the side of life, any time, aligning ourselves generatively. The sooner the better. Soil is blowing away as we pause to read and write this
Yet it seems that people and the orgs we form have a propensity toward ruination. And resilience if given reflection and information. So I say, you go, Gates and Rockefeller Foundations. You are not the foundations of life's quality, not without the knowledge of live culture, the understanding of basic biology and ecology. Neither are the Chinese, so GO. No, economics does not proceed ecologics. Business is always born to specific places, emanating from specific mores, ways of life. Do no harm in your importation. I have a sneaking suspicion that you are not using reflection and conscious decision making. So if you, surprise, surprise, do some harm, know that restoration is at hand. Or will you just rip and run once again? Please, please prove me wrong. Hey, and before you make any moves, check with your lawn guy and gardeners. And show soil foodweb ways to the Chinese, to the Indians and to the Brazilians, since they will be the ones setting the new rules as they form the New Core, if you really have the reach. On second thought, let the New Core find out and read and try for themselves and set the new rules, taking our smartest, turning to outsmart the old core, helping us in so doing.
And if you need to find out about reflection and consciousness read some of William Irwin Thompson (.org) 's astute work especially on biological machines and approaches, long supported by a Rockefeller and long the clearer of the visions at hand.
Kim McD,
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Posted by: Jarrod Myrick | 24 February 2007 at 03:13 PM