high yield farming
Ryan M. Rich (rrich@moose.uvm.edu)
Mon, 17 Apr 1995 16:52:34 -0400 (EDT)
Friends,
To elaborate on the discussion on the inseperability of production and
consumption brings to mind a term created by Alvin Toffler in his book
"The Third Wave." He says that in the next wave of society people will
bring the consumer and producer closer together. We will become
"prosumers." Apart from that term, a friend of mine that we have a
complete misunderstanding of freedom, and that we are drunk on freedom in
America. We can drive anywhere in our cars, but we have to release toxic
emmisions, have over forty thousand people die a year in car related
accidents, have registration, licences, insurance, have to work to get
the gasoline and repairs, etc. We are drunk on freedom and not
environmentally, or socially responsible. And who is someone who knows
what freedom is, and is responsible. A "freesponsible" human being. And a
lost thought about specialization, we who in universities and
institutions are still clinging to unbalanced training and professions.
We learn how to be punctual, disciplined, and conformist. We become
industrial human beings. To become holistic and have a sustainable
society means we need to leave this mold. As William I. Thompson said in
"Passages About Earth" To understand and become part of the new society,
I had no choice but to leave the old one. Maybe, we should still be
looking at stirctly ourselves. Where do each one of us actually stand
today? Is there habitat for you?
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Ryan M Rich
Plant and Soil Science Department
467 Colchester Ave.#2
Burlington Vt. 05401
802-864-0347
Homesteader and organic farmer waiting to destroy industialism in a
violent dual of hoes
rrich@moose.uvm.edu