September 2010
63 posts
Is brought to you by the letters F and U, the number 666 and the colour red.
Is simple. It is summed up in two words:
Free Food.
What do I mean? I mean that food should be freely growing everywhere people live, in such abundance that food shortage is a thing of the past. It is abour surrounding our immediate living spaces with food production. It is about creating an ecosystem for ourselves which supports all of our dietary and medicinal needs. There is more than enough room to do this, there is all the technology and knowhow necessary to do this. All we lack is the action.
This is a point in time unlike any other, we have the worlds resources at our fingertips, we have interconnection with each other on a level unimaginable even 50 years ago thanks to the internet, we can access all the combined knowledge of humanity at the click of a button. This is true wealth, knowledge, labour potential, skills and the ability to connect all the different parts together.
But you wouldn’t know it because we’re told that we’re in a recession…
We’re also in the midst of the biggest destruction of our ecosystem since the mass extinctions that killed the dinosaurs, and it’s all our fault. Particularly in the way that we produce food, which as it stands is a waste of land, and causes massive ecological damage through the destruction of soils and the poisoning of waterways.
We need to change our approach. Hence Free Food.
If we were to point our development, our planning and growth of cities, building our homes, designing our systems, towards the goal of providing Free Food, we would solve most of the problems we are currently facing. This is an opportunity, not a crisis.
It is an opportunity to create a world for generations to come which will ensure not only that they survive, but they thrive and never have to go hungry.
There are a lot of vested interests in the control and distribution of the industrial food system, a lot of people, generally middlemen corporate entities, make a lot of money out of it. But the fact is this model is unsustainable, in that it cannot possibly continue like this and is destined to collapse. We need to be ready for that, by building our own local ecosystems which reduce or eliminate the need for the industrial system of food production.
It is easier than you think. Permaculture design already exists, it is a way of mimicking nature to produce the largest yield possible, with the smallest amount of human labour possible. It allows natural cycles, other species, and the dynamic relationships between different members of the ecosystem to take care of much of the work, with humans acting like a conductor of an orchestra.
A permaculture food forest will produce more food overall than a wheat field or other ‘conventional’ agricultural method, with the added benefit of increased soil depth and fertility over time, rather than the depletion and destruction associated with the use of chemical fertilizers and poisons. If we were to surround our settlements with these incredible forest gardens, the pressures on our survival would go away, as they provide us with the food necessary to eat. Organically and for free.
All it takes is the desire for us to create this. We are creative entities. We have created an incredible world. It has some problems, which is why we need a change of direction.
If we can put a man on the moon, we can create Free Food. If the governments of the world were interested in helping their people live healthy happy lives, rather than helping the bottom lines of businesses, then this job could be sorted in a generation.
If you were to spend the money spent currently on weapons development and national defence on creating passive water harvesting, reforestation and Free Food, we would eliminate hunger, much of the disease associated with the weaknesses caused by malnutrition, and encroaching desertification WORLD WIDE. This would greatly reduce the survival pressures put on people, which is part of much of the violence in the world, as well as much of the unnecessary wage slavery.
So Free the Food.
and the people will follow.
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