Food Self-Sufficiency Contest

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May/June 1977
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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Many of our relatives and former associates seem compelled to make excuses for our present way of life. They seem to feel that we must be running from something or getting ready for some impending disaster. Or maybe they just think we lost our jobs and have no other choice in the way we currently live.

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Actually, we become uncomfortable when others talk about "getting out of the rat race" or "preparing ourselves for when the big pinch comes". We don't try to deceive ourselves by thinking that we are somehow immune to an economic, environmental, or social disaster. Even down here on our Ozark homestead, we are still an integral part of modern society. If it has troubles, we fully expect that we'll have to share them. There's really no place to hide anymore.

So we have not run away from any "rat race", nor have we tried to brace ourselves against any impending disaster. Rather, we simply enjoy trying to live our lives so that we have the absolute minimum adverse impact on the environment and so that we achieve the maximum harmony with the universe. Or, to put it another way, we try to live so that our personal effect on the environment will help to prevent a "big pinch" from ever taking place.

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  • MC 8/4/2009 1:40:02 AM

    No, there isn't any place to hide. And preventing some kind of "big pinch" is going to take the efforts of all-- or anyway most-- of us. And most of a spoiled, greedy, selfish, materialistic society isn't going to make that effort.

    If I did not believe that some people are more likely to survive a crisis than others, looking around at this mess would leave me too tempted to just lay down and stay stoned until I die.

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