A passage that firms up quite nicely the advantages of an agrarian ethos:
“An agrarian economy rises up from the fields, woods, and streams–from the complex of soils, slopes, weathers, connections, influences, and exchanges that we mean when we speak, for example, of the local community or the local watershed. The agrarian mind is therefore not [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 26, 2009
A Bit More from Wendell Berry
March 26, 2009
Putting Away the Pitchforks
Open the newspaper Pull up your customized, electronic news aggregator these days, and you will find a media reality awash in tales of populist rage. Content for a time as the symbol of homespun simplicity, an American Gothic accoutrement, the pitchfork has regained the currency it once carried in the bygone days of agrarian populism. [...]
March 13, 2009
How Full Is the Glass, Really?
From the world of pessimism today:
We have a (rather bleak) estimate of the world’s true carrying capacity from climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/scientist-warming-could-cut-population-to-1-billion/
And another shout from the escalating cacophony of alarm on our vastly broken industrial food system. Pigs with MRSA. Sounds like a really, really, awful horror flick, only this one’s the real [...]
March 12, 2009
The Fundamentals
I’m still buzzing on Tom Friedman’s March 7th editorial, “The Great Inflection,” in the New York Times. If you missed it, shame on you. Go now: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08friedman.html
Whatever you think about the man’s body of work, this take on the current market correction is a revelation. Refreshing is hardly a strong enough word. Call this a [...]
