I am currently rereading Rob Hopkins works on Transition. The way he describes, in a positive light, how things might look in the future is heartwarming and valuable. As Bill Mollison has told us, the problem is the solution. The global maelstrom, the dilemma that we find ourselves in, the control of our lives by the international banking system created by Rothschilds and Rockefellers and Morgans, albeit the very secretive manipulations of the worthless piece of paper we call money and the means by which they perpetrate this control, usury, and such, can only be circumvented by us locally: starting with an awareness of how to grow food at the doorstep, cache water from what falls from the sky, eliminate the need for excess and foreign goods, the list goes on. It is nothing but a revolution in our of thinking and doing. The solutions will only come from us “small time” citizens. There are something like 90,000,000 acres of viable and untapped farmland lying dormant in our towns and cities, our monocultural lawns. The shift to growing our own and powering down is not all that difficult. It starts with our thinking, our ability to shift the responsibility for our lives to us and our neighbors and families. How often have we abdicated this responsibility to the powers that be, to the Wal Marts and McDonalds of this world? Regardless of the corporate move to “green”, what would this do for our well-being anyway? Not only the health we garner from home-grown, but the “simple act of gardening” would eliminate so much cause and affect nonsense that it behooves us to act now and not have to pay later. Again, Mollison says that the only limits to yield are the limits in our thinking. How can we design a present and future that is as close to Eden as we can get? How much effort can we make in forethought and then putting things on the ground, taking action, making ethical choices for our children and their children? How many times have we beaten the word sustainability into submission only to come up short because we take no action. The only lip service we need pay heed to is the taste of fresh greens on our lips at harvest time. And the excess: give it to the neighbors so that they may also taste.
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