willy denner
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willy denner
@partialtruth
Little Seed Gardens-market garden, registered Randall cattle, first gen farm, since 1995
Valatie, NY Katılım Şubat 2013
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@peakaustria "We must make land common property." H. George
cooperative-individualism.org/chodorov-frank…
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In 1972, as I was just about to get married for the first time, I read the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth. I decided not to have children, given the long term prospects.
In the meantime, while I went to study hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari, a man called Robert Paine, who died two years ago, was developing a model of how positive trophic flows were generated by certain keystone species like sea otters and beavers and wolves.
My research, meanwhile, led me to conclude that the hunter-gatherer economy was responsible for the positive trophic flows in the Kalahari – keeping the plant and animal species diverse – and that perhaps humans have actually evolved in a keystone ecological niche. Later, as my research expanded to the study of long-fallow farming and nomadic pastoralism in the Sahel, I saw evidence in their economies also, of positive trophic effects. In fact some of the last areas still supporting elephants and giraffe and other large wildlife were to be found in the region inhabited by the slash-and-burn farmers in southern Burkina Faso.
I was not sure, however, what to make of the Fulani claim that grass and trees sprang up where their cattle’s hooves had been. Then a whole series of other research appeared – suggesting that nomadic pastoralists had actually increased the health of savana ecosystems – generated a positive trophic effect – through the effects of concentrating manure from cattle kraals as they moved across the landscape.
Finally, I reconsidered the extraordinary research by Elinor Ostrom, and of Robert McCNetting, who had documented that negative environmental effects were avoided by settled agricultural communities in places like Nigeria and Switzerland, through the institutionalization of economic practices that prevented the tragedy of the commons. In fact, Harding’s “Tragedy of the Commons” is easily recognizable as the consequence of communities UNABLE to restrain some people from overuse of grazing, deforesting, and over-exploitating resources of the commons traditionally held and protected by local communities.
It occurs to me that most people do not realize that the living planet is humanity’s “commons” – it belongs to us all. Millions of species; a wondrous diversity, is our endowment and our trust. Without a way of recognizing that fact, and of managing that commons in a way that will keep earth’s essential ecosystems, both marine and terrestrial, thriving – we lose the primary ecological niche we evolved to fill, and to fulfill.
anthroecologycom.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/eco…
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@ggraham Still unconvinced about money, except that land predates money and rent, and after rent arises, land backs money.
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@ggraham Sorry DM seem to not work for me. Yes, I think deficit spending/currency issue(private/public) beyond what is consumed in production (wages/depreciation) goes to land value.
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If we had to directly pay for the transportation we use instead of governments subsidizing it via public debt financing, there would be more walking, localism, and traditional villages.
Living comfortably far from the village center would be an enormous luxury. A business could not profitably grow a peach in California and sell it in Georgia. You'd know more of your neighbors. Agricultural land would be within an easy walk. Wilderness would not be far beyond that.
We'd still have the internet and electricity. People would still travel, but less frequently. There would still be big cities, but fewer of us would live in them.
But as things are, the farther people and goods travel, the more subsidy they receive. There has always been some of this, but only in the last 150 years did the volume of those subsidies explode.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
Only 2 states’ car fees actually cover their road costs. The other 48 require heavy subsidies. Last year, the feds spent $30B more on highways than the gas tax generated. Drivers aren’t “paying for transit riders” when they can’t even pay for roads. Talk about that.
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@partialtruth PS The first half of our convo (pre-power outage) did not finish uploading. Emailed you instructions for how we might salvage it.
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The chasm between generations in one magnificent chart.
The young literally only have their time and energy to sell, and our society cracks if they are priced out of even participating in the economy.
Something must give to rebalance these two forces.
Robert (infra 🏛️⌛️)@infraa_
If you work for a living, your share of GDP has never been lower If you hoard capital for a living, your share of GDP has never been higher
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Bought this 1953 Peshtigo, WI wooden row boat made by Thompson Brothers last summer. In my garage right now, but it’s headed up to lake cabin this summer. I’m wicked excited to get it on the water in the early morning for coffee and a Northwoods Wisconsin sunrise. #WoodenBoat
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@EBourgeois Seem to remember Sarah Savory writing about the first question to ask when choosing a strategy -will this result in bare soil?
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Many of our most significant societal issues we now confront can be traced to the destruction of the soil biome.
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Liberty is having the option to get around however you want. Some people will only use cars, and that's fine. But these regular essays pretending walkable cities prevent the option to drive are silly.
DannyCanTalk 🌈@dannycantalk
I do not want a walkable city. I do not want trains. I do not want busses. I want a car that can take me anywhere I want at any time. I don't want to be dependent on transit schedules. I want to choose who I'm traveling with, rather than going for luck of the draw. I want to be able to control my own climate while traveling. I want to be guaranteed a comfortable seat. I want somewhere to keep my things during a day out instead of having to carry everything with me. I want to buy and take home loads of groceries too big to carry without having to trouble myself with delivery services. I want to go through drive thrus. I want to be halfway home from work and impulsively decide to go to a restaurant on the other side of town and just change direction immediately. I want to drive around a new city to take in more than I could on foot or on a fixed route. I want to do road trips where we make up our journey as we go. I want to explore my own city at will without any particular plan. I want to visit small towns out of reach of even the most expansive proposed public transit systems. Essentially, I want freedom.
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@dvharry2020 Does land having investment value help a producer as producer? What part of rent does production get?
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