I am 55 years old and a retired CIA officer. Who is going to do this? Well, for one, I am.Ī quick bit of additional background to add to last years data whether it clarifies or obscures what I am doing is open to one’s interpretation I guess. We will need to reclaim land from suburbia and the pet horse industry. We need to grow our numbers of farmers and reduce their average age from approximately 60 to a more demographically supportable age. Farming needs to become more local and it needs to be performed as ecologically as possible (sustainable farming being something of an oxymoron). Many of us must learn small scale farming. With this in mind I have chosen to move forward and work towards a possible future. I am convinced that we cannot avoid massive change nor probably catastrophic upheaval. I believe that we have unwittingly raced into a civilizational dead end and need to quickly retrench and reconfigure our place in this world (although I do not expect this to happen). The short term causes of this need can be found in energy issues as often discussed on TOD and in the status of our financial system/consumer economy, while the primary long-term driver is the onrushing freight train of climate change. For a variety of complex reasons (which continue to evolve as this experiment continues) I have come to believe that our future world will require a significantly larger number of farmers than it has today.
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