Have We Forgotten The Earth?
The new Progressive Buttons Blog writes of the precarious position of our post-agricultural civilization, “At about the same time that the Space Program took off and rocketed to the Moon, we forgot how to tend the earth. We lived in our new homes as if they were spaceships, drinking Tang as if we were cut off from all ability to make our own food any more.”
As America teeters on the verge of recession, it worries me that most Americans wouldn’t even know how or when to plant a bean to feed themselves, much less how to harvest, store and prepare it.
We couldn’t grow victory gardens now if we tried. With global warming escalating, the difficulty is only increasing.
Mohandas K. Gandhi had a warning about this development, which he saw beginning in his own lifetime:
“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
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