What do you think about this, is this really the way to a sustainable future and good ethics. Does anybody read "Ringing Cedars"? https://thebovine.wordpress.com/200...ruits-59-of-meat-49-of-milk-way-to-go-people/
I had never heard of this "movement" before (or the "Ringing Cedars" series). What a beautiful and inspiring article - thank you for sharing... I was intrigued by one of the comments (by zoneonesustainableliving) that stated "I often think Bill Mollison (father of Permaculture movement) was right when he declared that the first world countries would be the third world countries of the future". I have recently had similar concerns (but, think the reasoning for the conclusion would be more powerful coming from a respected expert). Does anyone know where (or in what context) Bill Mollison made this statement? I tried to find this quote (to verify it directly), but could not...
Bill also has a reputation for colourful and difficult to verify statements - so take it with a grain of salt. 43% of statistics are invented on the spot. Or I could have just made that up....
Yeah, I'd like to see some reliable information to back up the stats in the link in post 1. I had a look online and couldn't find anything that didn't link back to the Anastasia books. Doesn't mean they are wrong, but we should exercise some caution. On the other hand, I've enjoyed Dmitri Orlov's work, looking at post-USSR collapse and why Russians are much better equipped for the powerdown than the US (which he thinks is pre-collapse). This is largely because of the village structures that still exist, where communities are interdependent for food, heating fuel, resource sharing etc, and because so many people still know how to grow food and live simply. 'Our Village' https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=11CHdKaxGZRAN2ia99Qy03KuzNyTJcDmVEDF7n53XxRQ Other writings at https://cluborlov.blogspot.com
Russia has allowed people to go to country areas, gave them land, and allows the people to work permaculture in a co-op system that stretches across their huge country. As the farmer new to the land makes food, it pays for the land he was given. It has sparked a large exodus from the major cities so people can find work in the country.
ISTM there are many converging movements all looking at growing stuff and changing our views on what and how we make and eat food. You have the schools garden programs https://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/ lifestyle programmes like River Cottage https://www.iinet.net.au/my/media/abc/ the guerilla gardening movement https://www.guerrillagardening.org/ The slow food movement https://slowfoodaustralia.com.au/ https://www.slowfood.com/ The organic gardening movement https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/ landshare programs https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardeni.../Landshare-schemes-Share-and-share-alike.html WWOOF https://www.wwoof.com.au/ The rise of small farmers markets and the green miles movement https://www.farmersmarkets.org.au/ The rise of Green politics https://www.themonthly.com.au/greening-politics-bob-brown-2134 The renaissance in scientific herbal research https://www.ijppsjournal.com/Vol4Suppl1/3289.pdf Increasing awareness and research on new crops and the willingness of many to try new foods. https://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/acotanc/papers/meyer.htm The preservation of old crops and species https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080420110157.htm Seed saving The Occupy movement, the environment movement, bio-dynamics,increasing vegetarianism, scepticism of corporate press releases, the free flow and sharing of information and ideas, the concept of biosecurity, increasing awareness of the hazards of many industrial agricultural and pharmaceutical chemicals (https://www.westonaprice.org/thumbs-up-reviews/poisoned-for-profit-by-philip-and-alice-shabecoff) increasing awareness of the interconnectedness of all things (Dirk gently?? https://www.wwoof.com.au/) Articles like this The future of food https://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jan/22/future-of-food-john-vidal
The rewilding I'm familiar with is the rewilding of Homo sapiens. https://www.urbanscout.org/collapse-vs-rewilding/ Toby Hemenway - How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLKHYHmPbo
