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Primary Cause of Hunger, Agriculture
I used to spend time -- as much as I could, when growing up, in nature. After a while something began to kick in. Something they thought humans didn't have: instinct.
Humankind has domesticated itself. It has bred itself out of instinct. The interactivity of instinct; reason and direction beyond the organism.
When left to their own devices, humankind cleared the arable surface and put in monocultural disasters of inefficient plants. Okay, so the concept of Agriculture was a big step in the advent of civilization. Yeah, whatever. But in the last century,
it dead-ended itself in misconceptions of agricultural perfectionism.
If the human instincts were still in place humankind would find out how to assume it's real role in the scheme of things and come up with a new facet of food production that would leave Agriculture in the dust. But no, poor stupid idiotic mankind has to keep on dead ending itself into these little pride trips that run their little ships of progress aground on desert islands. And not a Friday in sight. Not even a fried egg in sight.
I mean, we've had the concept of ecology since the 1960s. What's wrong with you guys. No inspiration? And now you've taken the concept of Agriculture into, okay, a facet of big business. And we know what kind of a one-way street disaster that's going to be. Also now we have the prospect of some groups of stupid morons actually trying to control the food supply.
You know, we haven't begun to tap in to the resources of all the things that are edible on the planet Earth. Also, a lot of these things operate in tandem to help control the problem of so-called pests. But let's be realistic, here, it's probably not doable in this kind of world. But we have bigger problems now because such a large portion of the population is outside of the loop of food production and therefore they are literally at one another's throats, so to speak, in this sort of cutthroat business world that treat each others' businesses as if they were the enemy. This is a recipe for disaster, as in enemy moment now.
There is a principle of economics, here, that entails an observable reality that you might not be privy to, but was very apparent back in the fifties: the economic success of the agrarian society. I wish you could check it out. If
it were still possible. Maybe it is. This principle describes the extreme prosperity obtainable when at least 40% of the population of any location is involved in the process of Agriculture or agricultural endeavors, or in Australianese, little Aggie.
What you're supposed to have, in this scenario, are clusters of family farms linked by county roadways with farmer markets situated at places where said roadways intersect. Such farms could receive subsidies by their representative governments, since they really aren't involved in export, but rather are involved in the internal prosperity of any particular nation. I can't reiterate this enough. You need to investigate and establish this if you are to attain true prosperity.
But some of you out there know what I'm talking about, and you don't want that, do you? No, you want the situation to end in failure. That's how you get rich, isn't it? That's how you get the big bucks. You're false doctrine is that you must succeed at everyone else's expense. Behind you is a wake of failed states and disintegrating nations that you got rich off of. Well, I'm not impressed, and neither are billions of other people who have noticed.
But, needless to say, poor little Aggie is a sick Lady in a sick world. And Agriculture, after all, is really the root cause of hunger in the world. Of course, now there is a new problem with a large portion of the population of the planet: obesity. But that is another topic for another article, an article discussing the cause of obesity. Primarily global warming.
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2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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June 01, 2005 |