Your grandson will live more like your grandfather. Climate change is why.

commondreams.org has summaries of a lot of sustainable food articles. They mostly deal with people returning to the land to live more like people did 100 years ago. They claim that traditional farming techniques can sequester CO2, improve the fertility of the soil and provide more nutritious food that tastes better as well as improve the yield of the land. It seems that this is satisfying way to live and provides meaning as well as helping others. It tends to reduce the need for external inputs (commercial fertilizer, pesticides, fossil fuels, etc.).

Sort of solves a lot of problems like providing meaningful work for lots of people. Still they do not directly deal with the amount of fossil fuel used to produce our food. John Steinhart in the 1970's at U of Wisconsin determined that the subsidy is about 10 to 1. That is 10 calories of fossil fuel for every 1 calorie of food produced. This number is mentioned at times by others, (but not attributed), so our current way of farming and food production will have to undergo some real changes. Michael Brownlee in "The Local Food Revolution" deals with these challenges as well as Courtney White in "Two Percent Solutions for the Planet". Their answers don't have much to do with current big ag, big banks, big chemical companies. They represent a departure that is more of a revolution in concepts. If we survive as a people, your grandson will live more like your
grandfather.
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