Use Stimulus To Increase Local Farming Capacity

by: John Howard

Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 21:05:49 PM EST

Our nation's factory farmed food supply is a public health hazard, responsible for many deaths from bacterial infections, rampant diabetes and poor nutrition, new influenzas, contaminated ground water, etc. There is a growing understanding among the public, thanks to books like Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Eating Animals, and movies like Food Inc and King Corn, that factory farming has got to go, and be replaced by local sustainable agriculture.

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Dale Carrico is no James Kunstler

by: John Howard

Fri Dec 18, 2009 at 18:14:57 PM EST

The ever-confusing Transhumanist critic Dale Carrico offers up another great rant against Transhumanists over at his amor mundi blog, melding Jim Kunstler's poetic commentary on the epic disaster about to happen with Dale's unique understanding of the addled sci-fi delusions plaguing the thinking of Transhumanists.

The Future's So Bright You Gotta Wear Shades
I truly worry that this was the last chance for democratic push-back, peer-to-peer, against a neo-feudal corporate-militarist America, and we may well be blowing it, right here, right now. Longer term education-agitation-organization may well be trending away from Movement Republicanism, not to mention ramifying pressures from post-US-hegemonic players, but it isn't at all clear that unraveling neoliberal ponzi-schemes, climate change, energy and resource descent, arms proliferation, global destabilization among other planetary problems are waiting around to give us time to become sane enough soon enough to be equal to them. The United States could very easily become in no time flat a hopelessly diseased distressed debt-ridden ignorant gun-saturated backwater neck deep in Greenhouse storms and riven with ethnic and ideological hatreds, while moneyed and incumbent interests retreat to walled enclaves with their loot to watch the show and pluck out the occasionally photogenic slave.

That's Dale echoing Kunstler, but with his peer-to-peer/education fixation replacing Kunster's clarion call for "re-scaling, re-localizing, and de-globalizing of our daily activities."

Below the flip, Dale eviscerates the Transhumanists for contributing to this epic collapse, but um, not really...

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