Becoming Dislodged from our Ecological Moorings

Date:   6/29/2014 10:02:40 PM ( 10 y ago)

Becoming Dislodged from our Ecological Moorings is one of the thermos that Joel Salatim addresses in this story that I found on Handpicked nation.

A paragraph that grabs me:

I’ve noticed that the wealthier the community the more the people who live there seem disconnected from their ecological moorings. Do they just assume that no matter how expensive energy becomes, they will always be the top feeders? Few things can be more environmentally reasonable than clothes lines, downspout rain catchments, gardens, backyard rabbits, chickens, and honey bees. But these elements smack of peasants, agrarianism, and self-reliance. Too many people think they’ve evolved to a higher level of sophistication than to be bothered by such drivel.

Just last week a city mayor confessed to me that she did not even have a kitchen in her home. Having just read Jared Diamond’s iconic Collapse, I’m struck by the aloof, disconnected spirit of too many people. Apparently some folks think we’ll be the first culture to extricate ourselves from these nasty ecological moorings. They think we’ll be able to forget about our dependency on earthworms, soil, water, and air. I suppose they think we’ll all sail off on a Star Trek space ship eating breakfast in a tablet, living in a world without diapers and decomposition.


http://www.handpickednation.com/vintage-handpicked-joel-salatins-tyrant-neighbor/


I TAKE UP THIS THEME IN HELPING UNCLE SAM MARRY "ANTI" GMO

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=2181365





 

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