Sustainable Future
Your farmer can’t sleep. This might be a little all over the place, but to me everything is related.
Once upon a time, farmers were the backbone of the community. Farmers were the wise old timers who would quietly put in their two cents from all of their experience with Nature and the cycles of Life, the time spent with their thoughts while they discipline their bodies and minds with hard work led to great admiration from the communities who were supported by the farmers, and likewise supported the farmers. Almost every person had their own business, supporting the community with jobs and other businesses by finding what they needed locally and likely from another agricultural based business. In Nature, sustainability comes through production and consumption happening in a balanced way. Nature always consumes what it produces, and produces through said consumption.
Do we remember Monsanto? Now merged with Bayer, Monsanto was once on the tip of many tongues as we realized what was happening to agriculture far too late. Monsanto would lend out patented seeds which were resistant to patented sprays from petro-based chemicals created and sold by Monsanto. With these sterile seeds, farmers became dependent on the giant corporation for the next seasons seeds. Scaling up their farms up with this new “efficiency” meant they became dependent on the chemicals to control pests and weeds. This level of production led to the modern diet of highly processed… food? made from genetically modified crops to produce cheap sugar, fat, and carbs to make any flavor or shape of “food” found through rigorous study to provide the pleasure a large corporation thought might get the consumer hooked. Now you see farmers and consumers trapped in a loop of consumption with production in the hands of few and no product created from the consumption except unhealthy land and unhealthy people.
Is this even the worst part? Weeds became resistant to the chemical sprays. Genetics constantly have to be updated. Sprays have to be altered. Is anyone studying the effects of these sprays or gene edited crops? Isn’t it interesting how Nature can evolve (mutate) to become resistant to chemicals we create to try to solve problems we create because we are going against Nature? I find that Nature will always be the victor if you try to fight Nature with unsustainable (artificial/non natural) methods. Ahem.
I am heavily concerned for the future I see coming. I see plans for “sustainable development” written up by some of those furthest from what sustainability is, even as an idea let alone reality. Only one thing is sustainable and that is Nature. When you think of sustainability do you think of a forest which is self regulating through all of its magnificent interconnected relationships or do you think of a robot using lasers to destroy weeds? Do you think of many diverse agricultural based enterprises working together to utilize land in a way that makes it more productive as they work while employing many other people, or do you picture a large swatch of land under a single owner using chemicals to produce a single crop that gets highly processed while the land is diminished through the use of heavy machinery and petrochemicals while being run automatically by artificial intelligence and gps technology?
Maybe you think yes, let the robots do the farming because I don’t want to. Let us run the world on electric power, just don’t remind me about the children mining precious metals to create the batteries and inner workings of our phones and electric cars and robot farmers. Just don’t remind me that the charging station is run by a diesel generator. We can all just hang out in our augmented reality and buy our NFTs to dress it up the way we couldn’t do with our natural reality. (I guess we should start clarifying to which we are referring.)
I think NO. More power in fewer hands is not the answer. Exporting the labor, and the waste, and the violence that makes it all happen does not answer the question; how can we sustain this comfort level we have become accustomed to just like the GMO farmer and the sugar addict?
The few who write the papers, who meet behind the closed doors, who create our future through their current investments and policies, the only sustainability they have in mind is that of their profits. These are the people who have studied psychology solely for the purpose of knowing what color makes you hungry, what lab made chemical tastes like your natural craving, how can we target your demographic specifically?
These are not the people to follow, these are not the people to support. We need to create our own businesses. We need to get our land back. We need to be able to produce goods that are just that, GOOD. The only answer to a Sustainable Future is to learn from the Past. We need to Conserve our resources, and especially our traditions. Seasonality was once celebrated. Festivals were held around harvest and around the preserving of what harvest we have now for the future. The saving of seeds now for the guarantee of a productive future. Conserving land for a buffer from floods and development.
Progress is going to give us robots, and we will become willing slaves to our own complacency. I ask you to genuinely consider who it is we are supporting with our power financially, emotionally, and with our language. Are you going to support your neighbor and the business they have worked so hard to create, or the multi-national corporation who has the same large share holders as the rest of the global monopoly with their exploitation of people and resources?
We need to learn to recognize the problem is not amongst us people, we are all just “doing our job”. The problem is the job we are being told to do. We need to look at our lives and seriously assess, like really evaluate, our home environment, our work environment, and our communities. Are these things that make my life go round sustainable? Could I make them myself? Could I produce this in my community given our shared resources? Can I fix this? What happens when I am done with this? Did someone get harmed in the production of this? Do I need this?
We are way too comfortable. I have a sneaking suspicion that will come back to bite us. Maybe before we become a snack to the unforgiving processes of Nature, we should look back at what made us uncomfortable. Producing for ourselves. Working together. Sharing. When you think about it, was the convenience really worth it to give up supporting your smiling neighbor and the work they were so proud of? Was it worth losing our sense of community to miss out on the discomfort of public debate? No.
Will you get uncomfortable with me? Will you take the risk of starting your own business? Will you adjust your prices so you can support another local business instead of importing from a no face monopoly? Will you spend more to know that your Life is supporting a Sustainable Future instead of a robot?
I hope you will join me, because once you get past the initial blast of cold, it warms up and becomes quite cozy. It will become a lot more comfortable as we grow in our resilience and resourcefulness. When we share our talents, our skills, our ideas. It may be difficult to harvest the wheat, and separate it from the chaff, but if we learn to let the blade and the wind work for us the yield will be rich. If we use a tractor and a blower we owe some of our yield to the bank for the loan instead of sharing with our community.
This is my public denouncement for “The Great Reset”. Join me is saying NO to this overreach of non elected officials and large corporations and donors. Search for yourself the dystopian ideas these people have to move us further from Nature and consolidate power and resources into fewer hands.
https://www.weforum.org/search?query=agriculture
Not just me:
Are these corporations you want partnered with your “sustainable developers”? Notice Bayer (Monsanto)?
https://www.weforum.org/partners#B
Here is some information about augmented reality if you haven’t heard about this, welcome to the matrix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
So, that is what’s keeping your farmer up from 2:30 am until I just don’t go back to sleep. Not the weather, not the missed plantings leading to a gap and missing market. I worry for what our future looks like when we are told “You will own nothing and be happy”.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/12/own-nothing-and-be-happy-the-great-resets-vision-of-the-future/
Thank you for reading my quiet two cents. I have been wanting to put this out there for a long time, but was concerned it was too political. I am hoping at this point everyone realizes this is beyond politics, and I just had to voice my opinion for any who would care. I would love to hear yours if you care to share. Email, call, text, chat after market, come to the farm. I truly care for you, individually, whether I know you or not. I love you, and appreciate what you have to offer. This Planet, and this Life are so very special and everything is related. I hope we get to talk soon.
Your farmer,
Zac