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Gunnar Rungren offers some very salient comments on options for productivity of smallholder farming under conditions of slashed fossil fuel usage. Is it a fantasy or are we doomed to industrial scale production? "By and large, it is impossible to disentangle agriculture from society at large and as long as farming is mainly operating as a producer of commodities it will inevitably follow the logic of industrialization with ever increasing labor productivity, be it driven by fossil fuel, solar energy produced hydrogen or wood gas. If farming is seen as something else, as planetary stewardship, maintenance of ecosystem or cultural services or as a lifestyle then the logic of labor productivity plays out differently, which is clearly visible even in our oil-soaked universe. " http://gardenearth.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-peasant-and-washing-machine.html _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
