on June 17, 2024, 8:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Confronting Fascism in the Final Stage of the Life-Cycle of Industrial Civilisation by Nafeez Ahmed"
re: defeatism, it rather depends on how whether we're talking about a few isolated, struggling small businesses here & there as is the case currently, or a mass movement leading an exodus from the cities. Hard to imagine at the moment, but in the long term rising costs and depleting resources will make metropolitan life harder and harder to sustain and basically force a reversal of the enclosure process. Plenty of ways it could go wrong, but in the end I think that is the only way to 'save the world' and solve a load of civilisation's ills in one fell swoop. The transhumanists (always a tendency in civilised philosophy - sky gods, heaven, looking to the stars) are going to have to come back to earth. With a thud if they got too high
Fionn said: 'In general 'being close to land' and agriculture is a death sentence for biodiversity and the environment.' - well yes, it rather depends on how it's done. Field agriculture, esp of grains, tends to generate exports and the mercantile/royal/military class to control them. The challenge is how to keep what you produce for yourself and rid yourself of the parasites that are always trying to take it off you and get you to produce more for their benefit. Easier said than done...
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