Here is my article, published in Usenet, and also in several key electronic publications in China (inclusive of the official communist party of China site). There was another article where I further expounded the need to consider:
1). Aquaculture. (Fish, mollusc, crustacean farming. All of which are possible.) 2). Hydroponics. 3). Desert reclamation for crops such as wheat. (Lots of success in other places, including mid East.) As the major priorities. Of course hydroponics in particular lends itself to organic farming. A main reason for looking at these technologies for countries such as China, and areas such as Africa are the relatively large pools of available labour, the mix of available skills, and the need for viable, long term, truly useful, development to meet world needs more effectively. As to organic farming outdoors in the "rough" there are no plant diseases or pests that cannot be dealt with by use of scientific methods that would qualify as "organic", but where there is a way there has to be the will power to do it. Partly the obstacles in the way of that include excessive competition in the area of research and development. The levels of secrecy in competitiveness, wasting the largest percentage of human talent and brain power, as well as expensive research facilities and technologies, where cooperation would have served progress far better. Unless America and other "competition" and "free enterprise" nations change their thinking they will be left behind by the nations who know that national research establishments, with researchers enabled to cooperate and work together, are going to lead the way, leaving the competition in the dust of the future. America telling those others that the American way is better is simply destructive competition, and untrue. Fool them into the same system, making them equally dysfunctional and wasteful, halting their progress, and hope to win using your own dysfunctional, brutally competitive and wasteful, system ? That is irrational and unreasonable, but then who said America is rational and reasonable ? -------------------------------- America Says Let Them Eat Microchips: The Yin And Yang Unbalanced Anyone wishing to distribute, copy, circulate, reproduce this article in any way, by any means, is fully welcome and permitted to do so. What progress do we see in the new world order of globalized capitalism ? The relentless advance of American economics is as rapid and unyielding as is the desertification of China. Recession and downturn economics only accelerate desertification. Social and cultural desertification along with environmental. As the sands of aridity make their advance towards Beijing Capitalism makes as aggressive an advance into parts of the world that resisted until recently. Truckloads, shiploads, massive tonnages of mass produced consumer goods and gadgets now leave Chinese factories. Let them eat microchips says America, and Europe has quickly joined in. We immediately ask what use as all those cell phones, video games machines, technical marvels, amusements of all kinds, in quantities that no existing market can possibly continue to fully absorb. This cornucopia falls far short of a cause for real Thanksgiving. It is more likenable to the full and complete opening of Pandora’s box of ills and perils. We need only look at the working conditions, and the impact on ways of life to begin to realize “they know not what they do”. My god, they know not what they do. Godless communism has become godless capitalism. Look and see how yin and yang are no longer in balance. Where is the investment in such enterprises as aquaculture fish farming, scientific agriculture, hydroponics, reclamation of desert, clean water, arable lands, forestry and all else that we know in our idiot brains is vital to any future humanity and to any real quality of life. Where is our progressive science and its application in technologies, in relation to improving the human situation in places that the west now claims to be conquering with its new world order of globalized capitalism ? America says let them eat microchips, and the more people there are over there the more market expansion capitalism can look forward to. The warehouses overfull of gizmos and gadgets for that ever expandable capitalist market place, there are no alternatives. Suddenly there is nothing to do. Suddenly there is nothing to eat. Suddenly the brave new world that came so suddenly and changed nearly everything has at least temporarily ended. What now ? Let them eat microchips says America. The warehouses are full. The production facilities are built and invested in. Those gadgets, gizmos, amusements, toys and trinkets, are all that those factories can produce. It is all that those millions of new capitalist workers know how to make. So surely they must all eat microchips. There is nothing else. This is what we are doing to them. This is what we have done to them. If there is a Hell then surely we, the leading economic powers of the world, in the imposing of this vision of capitalist progress are sure to burn in that Hell. If there is a truly mortal sin then we have committed it. We know that western democracy is slowly becoming the election of the uncapable by a majority of the least capable, who look for a reflection of themselves in the sales pitches and self presentations of their used car salesmen polyester suited politicians. Today’s model republic lags far behind Plato’s ideal of a republic governed by knowledge loving wise men, good and true. Plato called them philosopher kings, in his version of an ideal political order. Ideal or not, it is the current option made available to most in distinction to communism which proved itself to be a governance by a group of violent thugs of those made less capable than they would have been, traumatized by their constant mental beatings of each other and by the system that condoned that way of life. Not much choice when we look at the condition of the world today. Failed systems, with failed leadership, and the increasing danger of apathetic resignation to political despair opening the doors to any form of tyranny that at least promises some semblance of provision for some of the unmet needs and wants of a growing population. To some, even military dictatorships look preferable to the vision that the real America demonstrates beneath Uncle Sam’s rhetoric. At least that would be something that so some appears more fundamentally honest rather than the marching bands and prom queens of capitalism parading in Anytown and telling the world that they live in a universally sought for Paradise. Nothing could be further from the truth, and fewer and fewer are falling for that illusion. The days of the American neon Rome are numbered, and even the neon is slowly going out, one neon alphabet letter at time, like a broadway hit that has long overstayed its welcome. Now it is only bad acting of a beaten people and the worn out sets of dilapidated cities and a failing infrastructure. Fifty years ago you could still see clearly through the smog, but the vision now is completely clouded. Nothing is the same as was promised. Look at the post war 1950s magazines, and listen to the early 1960s speeches, and you quickly realize, we have all gone to Hell. We are far from any true vision of a city of God, though the preachers in American pulpits, mostly ignorant of Saint Augustine can scarce be discerned from door to door salesmen selling insurance policies like tickets to an afterlife ballpark where everyone can have a beer and hotdog while listening to the Star Spangled Banner and the toss out of the first ball. Where have we come in fifty years towards the good ? Can we really call what has happened progress ? Do we still believe in progress ? Increasingly our politics, east and west seem bankrupt. There is too little difference between the military parades in Red Square, and the homecoming parades of Anytown America. It all seems too much the same. Similarly the absurd, even if spectacular, pageantry of Beijing’s Olympics. It is all too much the same. Where does it all lead now, we might well ask ? Are we approaching the building of a better world ? The western world must now lead the east to where the west itself has not yet found a way to go. There is a path to salvation. The penance will be a heavy burden if governance chooses to pay it. What must now be done is to recognize the mortal sins we have committed in our economic conquest of the east. In our zeal to oust and beat out the thugs of communism we failed to rebuild the east in accordance with any viable long term plan that leads to real progress towards the good and true. We failed in the most important task of all. Beating out the thugs was relatively easy, but what then ? Then we must lead the conquered to the promised land. We cannot leave them stranded in a desert of growing population, shrinking resources, and facing the prospect of nothing but microchips to eat. Investment must begin to be investment in real human needs. Priorities of needs, according to local conditions, must begin to be a driving force behind what types of progress are potentially envisioned and brought into actualization in places that know little better than to follow to disaster, unless better led than we tend to lead ourselves. If our poltics at home is near bankrupt, and our own humanity and care for values is in decline, our cities deteriorating, our people without adequate meaningful opportunities, our social fabric increasingly torn and dysfunctional, we cannot hope to lead the east to greener pastures. Our own nations becoming a desertification of lost humanity and ruined hopes, of social disconnection, of brokenness and alienation, we have nothing much to offer to the east. Adding insult to injury we then impose a system of investment that favours anything and everything other than what is most needful. Then trades endless words of debate and international dialogue, Babeling incessantly via an infinite multitude of electronic devices and communications technologies, until nothing remains sane or well reasoned for any real progress towards any real good. Once you oust the thugs you have to show that you yourselves are someone better qualified and capable than they are. You have to bring a reduction in human misery and oppression. You have to bring a better, more progressive, way to meet real human needs, to promote real happiness. You have to be able to define and achieve the good, not only mass production of goods, without having any measure of the difference between the good and merely goods. The whole world is out of balance, and the good is further and further from realization and actualization. We see this particularly emphatic in the east, but that is only a distorted reflection of the deterioration in the west. It cannot be anything else other than that. The one can only follow and reflect the other, and sometimes that reflection is the worst made larger and more mass produced, expediting only the problems, not the solutions. The reflection has no vision of the solutions if we do not present those solutions ourselves in the west. The east could only follow the west’s mistakes, and reflect a false faith. If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions then surely unbridled, poorly governed, mismanaged, short sighted, capitalist colonialism is the ultimate and absolute expression of a road to Hell paved with good intentions. Exceedingly little that is truly good has come of it, for too many to even begin to count. We live in an inceasingly arid wasteland and it is clear that those who lead “know not what they do”. Not long from now it will be too late for any salvation. The damage will be too extreme and too extensive for any hope of social, cultural, and economic salvation. The capitalist apocalypse will be a sure thing, and no more need to gamble any further. That too is a failure to achieve real progress towards the good. Some would claim that there is no good and progress can never atain any real good. They would cite their own unyielding faith in failure as proof of that too. Religious tradition underlying the capitalist aggenda can sometimes truly be the devil citing scripture for his own short sighted and malaevolently self centered purposes. That we the idiots fall for that all too often, wins us our dunce caps, and we can wear them proudly, for we truly have little else to be proud of considering the current state of where we have led the world. Capitalism must learn to balance its yin and its yang, before it is too late. Robert Morpheal On Nov 24, 9:53 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15278.cfm > > A new study released by the United Nations indicates that the best way > to increase food production in Africa is to shift to organic farming > practices. > > According to the study, African farmers who have already transitioned > to organic production are seeing yield increases, on average, of 128% > percent. Organic farming practices build healthier top soil, allowing > plants to develop deeper root systems, thus providing greater > resilience in extreme drought conditions. > > Vids on this crisishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hylxONK3Es > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Tme-MyPaM > > Peace and best wishes. > > Xi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. 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