| Jean-Noël Montagné on Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:57:28 +0200 (CEST) |
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Le 17/07/2022 à 07:48, Brian Holmes a écrit : The only part of your text where I might disagree,
Jean-Noel, is that the future lies in scaling down toward simple agriculture. Scaling down, yes, that's a must, but it will still take effective forms of social organization and new, non-polluting energy sources to face all this without massive human die-offs.
Modern massive-scale agriculture necessitate high tech tools, a lot of low-cost energy, and carbone-energy dependant products like pesticides or fertilizers. Nothing sustainable. Moreover, the most massive agricultural tools accelerate the current erosion and disappearance of the soil. The new climate system alternance drought/flooding increases this erosion. Small scale farming and rural communities are the future, when oil and gas will be so expensive. Such mutation has started. In Europe, there is a growing escape from big cities to small territories, with desire of self-sustainable life, but in solidarity networks, and the Covid was a trigger.
Look at the great success of the french non-profit organisation " L'atelier Paysan". They started ten years ago with about 6 open-source DIY organic farming machines, and they show now more than 80 differents machines, all designed for DIY, recycling, low-cost, low energy, farming.
https://www.latelierpaysan.org/Plans-et-TutorielsThey have organised hundreds training courses and workshops everywhere in Europe, and they start now to work in other continents.
https://www.latelierpaysan.org/Training-coursesTheir book, in the Anthropocene collection from Le seuil, "Reprendre la terre aux machines", "Taking back the land from the machines", ( https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/reprendre-la-terre-aux-machines-l-atelier-paysan/9782021478174 ) has a huge success, and could easily be translated to english.
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