Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Extreme science might briefly feed 10 billion lost souls; gentle science would easily feed 500 million fulfilled souls for eons 
This picture speaks for itself, but don't overlook the gunk-filled top soil that is blowing in the wind. This picture broadcasts death. 
The point of this blog is that we might just might stretch our invasion of Nature to the point where we might feed as many as 10 billion of us. It would not last long because we would be destroying the resource that sustained us and we would be very, very unfulfilled - unhappy. Personally, I don't think we'll get that far, but we seem horrifyingly determined to try, and even to try to go farther (12 billion?) Never has the word tragedy been more truly written.
Picture two speaks for itself as well. Note the looks of happiness, note the evenness between men and women. Note the enriching healing contact with the living earth. This is a part of the contract with Nature that we must now work urgently to restore. All of our dreams must now be built upon the understanding that our appetite for fulfillment is a great as our appetite for food. The unmet appetite for fulfillment is at the heart of the appalling human tragedy.
There is some evidence that this kind of farming, in which our hands, our muscles, our intelligent kindness, and a knowledgeable partnership with nature replace herbicides, pesticides, machines, and petroleum, offers a much better prospect for meeting the minimum nutritional requirements of the current 7 and a third billion than the intensive farming of the first picture. However, we know with absolute certainty that the mixed farming of the second picture could meet the nutritional needs of a half billion people beyond are wildest dreams and it would provide fulfillment for a large part of that population as well. WE NEED TO DREAM NEW DREAMS. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY FORWARD.
This picture speaks for itself, but don't overlook the gunk-filled top soil that is blowing in the wind. This picture broadcasts death. The point of this blog is that we might just might stretch our invasion of Nature to the point where we might feed as many as 10 billion of us. It would not last long because we would be destroying the resource that sustained us and we would be very, very unfulfilled - unhappy. Personally, I don't think we'll get that far, but we seem horrifyingly determined to try, and even to try to go farther (12 billion?) Never has the word tragedy been more truly written.Picture two speaks for itself as well. Note the looks of happiness, note the evenness between men and women. Note the enriching healing contact with the living earth. This is a part of the contract with Nature that we must now work urgently to restore. All of our dreams must now be built upon the understanding that our appetite for fulfillment is a great as our appetite for food. The unmet appetite for fulfillment is at the heart of the appalling human tragedy.
There is some evidence that this kind of farming, in which our hands, our muscles, our intelligent kindness, and a knowledgeable partnership with nature replace herbicides, pesticides, machines, and petroleum, offers a much better prospect for meeting the minimum nutritional requirements of the current 7 and a third billion than the intensive farming of the first picture. However, we know with absolute certainty that the mixed farming of the second picture could meet the nutritional needs of a half billion people beyond are wildest dreams and it would provide fulfillment for a large part of that population as well. WE NEED TO DREAM NEW DREAMS. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY FORWARD.
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