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When our physical and social needs are met, we still have rent and debt to pay & so we must hustle
Eric Toensmeier told me that humans are not poisonous to the planet by nature. It's the system we live in that makes us toxic to the planet. He didn't say what aspect of the system is the noxious part, and so I wondered if he meant capitalism. The Soviet Union created loads of pollution and waste, and they were ideologically opposed to capitalism.
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We live in a system that makes us toxic to the planet
Last summer, Olga and I drove down to Holyoke, Massachusetts to record a conversation with Eric Toensmeier, author of The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security. We had a sit-down chat, and then we took a tour of his garden. The last ( Read more... ) -
Do me a solid?
Vocalo.org is an actual over-the-airwaves radio station that broadcasts material submitted to their website. I put up a short sampler of C-Realm material over a year ago, and it's just come to my attention that it's been played a few times on the air ( Read more... ) -
facinating post and subsequent discussion
vector: prester_scott (I think ( Read more... ) -
Malthus: More Relevant Than Ever
link:http://www.greatchange.org/ov-catton,malthus.html
Snippet:Malthus was not wrong in the ways commonly supposed. From his 18th century perspective he simply had no basis for seeing the human ability to "overshoot" carrying capacity. It was inconceivable to ( Read more... )
