Re:the London Strategy -Reply

Ted Rogers (TROGERS@ars.usda.gov)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:26:31 -0700

Yes you are correct and I promise to make this one of my millennium
resolutions, the new REE web site that Andy is setting up looks like it is
going to help me here. This was also correct thirty years ago when I
began my personal rEvolution into wholistic thinking. Unfortunately the
"conscious elite" is as small and ineffectual today as it was thirty years
ago. I would observe that the public policy skills are so low as to be
non-existent. Certainly the "organic" fiasco continues to bear this out.

I'm sorry Lawrence, this use of the word natural in association with or
as a descriptor of agriculture drives me up a wall. I have done it myself
in the past, but really, think about it. We invented agriculture 10,000
years ago and slowly began the evolution of culture built upon it. There
is absolutely nothing natural about agriculture. It is an elegant synthetic
construct. The critical issue from a wholistic and sustainable
perspective is that we try to understand how to harmonize modern
agricultural systems with what we are beginning to learn from nature as
we invent the science of ecology.

Best,

Ted

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