This is a good essay!
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue64/Smith64.pdf
I hope you might find time/have
the desire to read it!
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“The Sky Is Falling!” for some at various points in time in
the universe(s). This can be studied/analyzed/realized
through lens … of the space shuttle, … at eye level here on Earth, and … involving
micro & nano views.
On the other hand, at all of these levels in certain spatial/temporal
sectors for some species complex (ecological communities), “Life Is Good!”
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I love life!! and I especially love it on a day like today here
in “Clean” Seguin when we have a grandkid (or grandkids/kids/friends) over and
it’s a cool fall day after recent rain …
and I’m listening to John Prine singing “You
Got Gold” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZsgEbEbNs
(or even some “Humans Ain’t Human” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2E6RX7W44
) on KNBT 92.1 New Braunfels.
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I do think biochar, photovoltaic systems, conventional
organic food production, high tech, etc., etc. are not moving us much toward
community resilience & sustainability (I’m going to post some Martin-“poetry”—below--on
this.). On the other hand, what makes
more sense is: planned controlled grazing,
passive solar designs of buildings, lowering consumption, low/appropriate
technology, and building of small schools in concert with the Land/Nature and
with positively ethical applied community ecology across the curricula and
campuses.
I do recognize that I haven’t done much of significance in
my ca. 67 years of life. But “We Are All
Sinners!” and can do better … and “Today
Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life!!”
(And efforts toward smaller schools and ecology across
curricula/campuses is where we should be expending much of our energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_schools_movement
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/change/greening-campus )
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Headed to The Farm in
Stockdale. pbm
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Enrolada*
Jan 2007 (pbm)
Depression and Pinchot-wired parents taught
us to conserve.
2007 Chosen People-fundamentalist preachers impel us to grab and
rule the all that WE MOST CERTAINLY deserve.
Humility, frugality used to be preached
in the churches.
America First!!!
War!! Estados Unidos sempre
precisa ganhar! … And the ship
of state lurches.
Donald Trump, Warren Buffett, Bill
Gates. The power reigns.
Others squalid in big city/rural
remains.
So green! So
green! A new gas-electric hybrid auto and a muito verde LEED home built for only
200, 000 times what half the
individuals in the world make in a year.
“Organicissimo!!
Organicissimo!!” With this certified pesticide-free
apple sent from New Zealand
for our fresh fruit Texas
party of Christmas cheer.
“Environmentists”’
answer is “R enewable”. Used only a half
million BTUs per capita last year of ethanol and fuel cell energy.
… Did I
mention it cost about a million British Thermal Units of oil, gas and coal. Don’t you love the synergy?!?!
Cars cause super-problems; we rush for
more.
9-11!
Pres says rush for the store.
Indoor pools, treadmill exercise
machines..
Could we
become Mexican Raramuri or Kenyan Kalenjins and make the whole earth Nature’s
park, and run it in our jeans … and get
it back into concert with our genes?
Hot outside? Turn on the arcondicionados! Keep eating more gas, oil, coal fueled
potatoes.
Global warming (Climate change)? Highly
recommend moving from Barbados.
The Chosen
few of the world possess Capital and are Landed,
While the Third
World is kwashiorkor- stranded.
7 billion Homo sapiens—Number ONE!!!
Other top trophic species? You’re certainly done!
Top
soil? Watersheds? Diverse biotic communities? Passive solar energy? Who the hell has heard of “it”??
Big screens,
NFL, NBA, empty calories—chips and beer.
All of this is what keeps the U.S. lit.
Farm
subsidies, conservation easements, cheap energy and basic resources from abroad.
For the Lorded Landed this spells more cash!
Certainly
can’t cap excessive income and capital gains, strive for real equity and equality and produce less
trash!
Trans Texas Corridors! Loops around Interstate jams. Muckity, muckity, muck, muck, muck.
I’ll solve it
by traversing overLand with my on-steroids Hummer, ATV, Suburban, and Big
diesel truck.
Frequent flyer miles, ecotourism, luxury
‘beachcombing”, Carnival Cruise.
Explain for me again now those South
American favela blues!?!
Come to our High Schools and
Universities and learn to change the world faster.
No matter this “serves” to make the Natural ecosphere much less of a laster.
Mold those
young uns into businessmen, corporate lawyers, sports physicians, oil field
geologists.
But “Heaven forbid” an
environmentalist or world renowned
ecologist!
It’s the
parents’ fault, the teacher’s culpa, the administrators get in the way;
a federal problem, a local one. The
village! The family! The individual student! … Let’s get more realistic!!!
It’s all of
these. Just start somewhere and
stay focused on it with lots of will and
energy. Get off your butt and think
holistic!
Radios, TVs,
cell phones, iPods, video games, plastics, petroleum perfumes,Taco bell food, this dam computer screen. Peggy Lee cries out, “Is That All There Is?”
… VIRTUAL reality?
Think this is really messing with my
Natural innate personality!
Go out into the country, inner city or
even suburban streets.
In this
wealthiest of nations you’ll find unattended-to obesity, high blood pressure,
diabetes, asthma, cancer, malnutrition-- to which I would attribute bad (or
lack of) local doctors, politics and economics, chambers of commerce, ecological ignorance and apathy,
and high fructose corn-based sweets.
Arteriosclerosis,
arthrosclerosis, hypertension, embolism, angina, arrhythmia, heart attack,
stroke. Could it be our way of life??
Perhaps we
could just slow down and do it the natural way and give (human) Nature less
strife??
Small is beautiful! Don’t let them tease you!!
Big is passé
… pasado. Communidades que
pensa grandao are screwed.
War.
Basic/Airborne Ranger/Green Beret Special Forces training--into fit
muscled/artificial “Army of One”- MEN (and woMEN). Uniforms, weapons, order, brass gives us
meaning.
Could we all
do a chaotic Peace Corps thing --and rather than destroy do just cleaning?
Haifa, Chechnya,
Darfur, Cuba, the deep dark Congo.
Their notoriety?
“ Isn’t one of those where they invented
the bongo?”
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I’m confused!!!!
Or too much BS infused?
Got to act
local.
I’m not just
a Seguin yokel.
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