tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post511028917336961730..comments2024-03-23T05:42:07.516-04:00Comments on The Deliberate Agrarian: James Howard Kunstler on The Future of AgricultureHerrick Kimballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17116051416696885647noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-28706702807990945432010-01-12T09:33:56.531-05:002010-01-12T09:33:56.531-05:00Kunstler's views are based partially on curren...Kunstler's views are based partially on current events, partially on conspiracy and partially on outlandish fear. While I agree with some of his thoughts, others are so unbelievable as to border on the ridiculous. Nevertheless, things are going to change and we need to prep for those days.Bret4207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-14833706516188488932008-06-27T12:59:00.000-04:002008-06-27T12:59:00.000-04:00Hi Hennrick. Thanks for this post. It’s tough no...Hi Hennrick. Thanks for this post. It’s tough not imagine the future of agriculture changing dramatically. I too believe that major changes are coming and if things are left un-changed, farming in 10 years will look a lot different. I predict (shake my magic 8 ball) that we will see a return to localization, although I doubt most people will turn their front lawns into gardens. While corn is the major US crop and goes into most products we eat, I would expect a shift from all the vegetable production in California. First reason; diminishing water resource. Second reason; you can easily grow lettuce and carrots in Ohio and upstate NY and transport them to the densely populated Eastern Seaboard much cheaper than driving them across the country. The trend is already starting to happen with people motivated by social and environmental beliefs, but eventually I think the real power (economics) will come into play.<BR/><BR/>Alex Tiller<BR/><A HREF="http://blog.alextiller.com" REL="nofollow">http://blog.alextiller.com</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-67456660465820894822008-06-26T12:36:00.000-04:002008-06-26T12:36:00.000-04:00I, too, like Kunstler, and have been reading him f...I, too, like Kunstler, and have been reading him for some time. I also like Matt Savinar's Peak Oil site. None of it Christian, and Kunstler can, indeed, cross the line w/the profanity. All that said, he has been bang-on w/his prognostications... mainly because they are not subjective (for the most part). Fr. Vincent McNabb, as well as Chesterton, spoke of this. I am a Traditional Roman Catholic, so I am familiar with their writings, as well. Fr. McNabb pushed Christians to leave Babylon, to go Agrarian, for the pursuit of truly Christian family values... Love your blog, by the way. Want to do the same "return to the land", as you have. God bless you. You are doing the right thing. Too many people of Faith feel way too comfortable in suburbia. We should feel uncomfortable within the confines of secular materialism...<BR/><BR/>Too often... we feel right at home... Particularly these days...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729569.post-22371961266866888402008-06-25T22:03:00.000-04:002008-06-25T22:03:00.000-04:00I enjoy Kunstler, {although his occasional vulgari...I enjoy Kunstler, {although his occasional vulgarity gets on my nerves}, I think he is on to something, but I think it will happen more gradually than he does. I think things will just get tighter, little by little, over the years, and things will change. One day ten years from now, you will all of a sudden notice that the world is much different than it was before. It will occur to you that you haven't seen a strawberry box, that says "grown in Mexico" on the package, in a long time.Or the lettuce, won't say packed in California. They will be much closer to home. There will seem to be many more people growing food, than there was years earlier. More train travel, and you'll forget how long it's been since you flew anywhere. Many such things, I think will be like this. Not like falling off cliff, but more like a long gradual slope down to a new world.<BR/>But, I could be wrong about that.brierrabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02159138666926348235noreply@blogger.com