<<It is not only us. It is the system. They have successfully made
chemical farming the "default" system. If you want to do otherwise,
you have to go through all kinds of bureaucratic hulla-hoops,
documentary mumbo-jumbo and pay all kinds of fees and taxes, while the
chemical industry enjoys all kinds of subsidies, research grants, etc.
We have to change not only "us", but also the rotten system.
Roberto
Hi Roberto,
Must agree with you (have exchanged thoughts with you in the
past). An individual can be a great example like Don Muroc and his
homesteaders and this is the best way to get out from under the corporate
food monsters grip (grow your own). And you point out that we happen to have
to endure living under a "rotten system", so that its not enough to do it
individually. To synthesize the 2 points of view, would simply be for
individuals like Don and others to consciously be models for others, and for
all of us to help as many as we can become self-sufficient, mostly thru
low-tech means.
As you may recall, I have set up a website for this purpose, to share
low-tech sustainable ideas/methods as broadly as possible. I have had much
misfortune with webdesigners, in that it slowed my project by 6 important
months, so as to not have as large a pre-y2k effect (in helping others
prepare globally by implementing low-tech sustainable techniques), but I am
hoping that interest will continue to build and that the ramifications of
whatever y2k brings are not so great as to preclude the possibility of
building anything. So, lets work together to make it a global trend along
with "community food security", especially in urban areas.
Kind Regards,
Tom Osher
http://bagelhole.org
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