This story is also true of Brazil where rich are becoming rich and
poor becoming miserable and hence street violence is growing up ,
there is no place in the jail an d all the money is only in the
hand of the 3 percent of the population and hence other cannot do
anything.
I lived in Brasil for a
couple years, in Recife. And married a local gal from Agua
Fria.
I love Brasil and wish there was a
solution to the concentration of wealth. We here in
the states have the same problem. And
our jails are filled with more prisons being built.
We don't have favelas here yet but
unless we can wrest our country back from the
neo-con Republicans, it is just a
matter of time.
If there is no local
development , local democracy , local biofuel , feed , feed production
as the man made machine can only do all the job to explore
the local resources as if the out side resource are very cheap and
sustainable.
Gandhi' in India has made
the war against the imports of the textile and machine made
technology and there also the problem of modern technology is
become unsustainable.
The social , ecological , economical and
technological sustainability is possible where every one is included ,
to have place , job.Our globalized word ca make possible local development ,
not destroy all the local man power ,land water resources.
Globalization so far has done much more
harm than good. It is possible for this to change but corporations are mostly
interested in their current stock price and gaining advantage over
competitors. Morals and ethics are not part of their business plan, with the
environment as something to be used/consumed in such a way as to maximize
profits. My view of globalization is dim at
best.
We are working on simple integrate
agroecological farming , animal production integrated with aquacuture and hey
farming systems.
I wish you much success. You have
something truly valuable happening there.
The
cecological engineering with biofuel can truly solve the real problem of
poverty , unemployment's and other problems and groups like ours
truely international can have greater role to play .
My hope is that there
will be no corporate interference to your endeavors. Is the
government
supporting your efforts?
Best wishes, D.
Mindock
With regrads
Thanking you
Pannirselvam
P.V
2006/8/20, jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
actually
it isnt exactly a rural phenomenon. i am not sure what you
consider to be
"rural" (population limit maybe?) but where i grew up
there were very
nearly 750000 people in the area in the mid 70's, and
before the end of
the next decade it was brutally downsized. jobs were
cut, shops and
factories shut down. even finding a service job was a
problem, because
noone had the money to pay for services. the "richest"
people in the QCA
were living on 20000$ a year (slightly under average
"normal" pay scale)
and they had to work horrifying hours to get that.
more layoffs and some
of the biggest employers going overseas just about
clinched the deal for
us. im not exactly sure what happened but the fall
stopped -or at least
slowed- long enough for some small local businesses
to open within the
last six or seven years. mostly technical or
mechanical places, and
construction, good gods the construction... they
have nothing to sell but
they insist on building places to sell FROM.
it cant continue this
way. it will fail, because there are more
resources going in than
products coming back out. it is not just a
simple matter of waste,
because the whole process is waste.
the people there dont care how useful
anything they do is, as long as
they get their paychecks. i have been
working supremely hard to find
more viable options, testing, planning,
and researching what these
places have to offer as far as habitat,
energy, and food, and i am
surprised that what i have found has not been
considered "cost
effective" in any way.
if i could produce a local
energy instead of importing from out of state
or country, the
"necessary" outflow of grain would stop, and the
possibility of
implementing a decent fuel/crop rotation in the outlying
areas would
become real. there would be jobs again, local farmers would
finally be
taken care of instead of taken advantage of, and the local
tendril of the
monsanto plague would have no more victims...
has anyone ever made a
coop out of an area that size before?
(now that i read this over, i
realize i probably sound crazy. is it
foolish to want to help your home
on such a scale?)
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 18:00 -0500, D. Mindock
wrote:
>
>
> The article focuses on a small Oregon town
but I have a suspicion it's
> true of many rural areas.
>
> MJ
>
>
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