Our Circular Eco Economy (IV)
Solution: Sustainable, Organic, Community Farms All Around the World
Note: This group of five articles “Our Circular Eco Economy” are not an “I Know It All” series. They are articles to try to get people thinking more creatively about our future, planet, and people.
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“The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time. The emissions amount to a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to a study. The giant forest had previously been a carbon sink, absorbing the emissions driving the climate crisis, but is now causing its acceleration, researchers said. Most of the emissions are caused by fires, many deliberately set to clear land for beef and soy production. But even without fires, hotter temperatures and droughts mean the south-eastern Amazon has become a source of CO2, rather than a sink. Growing trees and plants have taken up about a quarter of all fossil fuel emissions since 1960, with the Amazon playing a major role as the largest tropical forest. Losing the Amazon’s power to capture CO2 is a stark warning that slashing emissions from fossil fuels is more urgent than ever, scientists said.” — The Guardian
The Amazon currently is not able to absorb all the crap (literally) we are putting out into the environment — Life Herself is Dying.
Life Herself is Dying (The Amazon Rainforest) — Awakening Consciousness
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Cities just have buildings. They do not help, except if you want mass cooperation. Gardens, forests, parks help to take in all of that carbon and release oxygen.
We need a ratio of people : nature : cities to ensure proper ventilation so we can breathe and survive as a species.
Possible Solution:
Organic, Sustainable, Diverse, Community-Orientated Farms
Do you think we should start calculating how much energy we get from “wheat” “rice” and “soy”? Could we do better?
How much energy does yucca or macca or quinoa or algarrabina or kiwicha give a person?
How much energy does each plant deplete or give to the land, water, carbon, oxygen, other species, etc?
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Do you think we’re destroying the entire earth for crops that don’t really give us any nutrition?
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Could we have organic sustainable community-orientated loving farms all over the world that create healthy nutrition for every local population?
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Google AI Search Question: What is the rate of inequality in the world, top 1%?
Google AI Search Answer:
The world's top 1% of the population owns a large portion of the world's wealth and income, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening:
Wealth
In 2023, the world's richest 1% owned 47.5% of the world's wealth, which is about $214 trillion. This is while the bottom 50% of the world's population owns less than 2% of the world's wealth.
Income
The top 10% of the world's population earns more than the bottom 50% in many regions. For example, in East Asia, Russia and Central Asia, and North America, the top 10% earn 16 times more than the bottom 50%.
New wealth
Since 2020, the top 1% has captured nearly two-thirds of the $42 trillion in new wealth created, which is almost twice as much as the bottom 99% of the world's population.
The unequal distribution of wealth can have negative consequences, including:
Hampering economic growth: The gap between the rich and the poor can make it harder for societies to flourish and can lead to social instability.
Corrupting politics and media: Inequality can corrupt and polarize politics and media.
Eroding democracies: Inequality can erode democracies.
So, as a suggestion, let’s get the army, cannabis-jailed sinless men, and anybody who wants a job, to start building sustainable farms, where people can live together in harmony.
The women can also help with cooking, gardening, cleaning. They can be provided jobs too!
Let’s build a trail all across the United States where people can hike, bike, or bus from farm to farm. They can farm, cook, clean, meditate, smoke cannabis, be part of a loving community. They can feel useful, peaceful, and in harmony. Basically The Dream of the Hippies!
A lot of American citizens are sitting in their parents basements with no jobs, watching TV, and being useless. Some may have spent money on college, now regret it because you don’t really need a BA to do most work. Some may have given into societal pressure and now have malnourished children and try to survive by using meth.
And what do the Republicans in South Dakota do? They use money to put up billboards against meth rather than use that money to feed the homeless and help people get out of poverty. It’s a bizarre situation.
You can plant trees, you can start a garden. You could become a woodworker. You could become an artist. You could become a shaman. A guitar player. You could start a hemp factory to get rid of petroleum plastics and make biodegradable products. You never know! This farm community is meant to help give you a break. Slow down. Calm down. Dream!
Plus + This will be an area where we can treat animals with dignity. Factory farms give hormones and antibiotics and cruelty to animals, and it ends up in people who then become blinder, dumber, and more ill. So, as we create loving, community farms where there is a karma positive ratio of healthy people : healthy animals : healthy plants, that will be helpful!
Ideas from History that were Successful:
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933, FDR
“I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work…More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work…I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished…The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Conservation of Sacred Sites, 1933, FDR
“Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, combined with his enthusiasm for conservation, laid a firm foundation for protecting the nation’s natural bounty. The extent of the conservation projects carried on during the New Deal was far more reaching than anything attempted before. Soil erosion control, water conservation, the preservation of wildlife, and other environmental protection activities became a part of the everyday life and activities of American citizens. The importance of the work was new and inspiring. Under his leadership, FDR’s programs introduced new concepts on a national level in planning for the responsible use of our natural and historic resources.” — National Park Service
The Marshall Plan, US Secretary of State George C. Marshall, 1947
“It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health to the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is not directed against any country, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Any government that is willing to assist in recovery will find full co-operation on the part of the United States. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.” — US Secretary of State George C. Marshall at Harvard’s Commencement Address
We need to move people around; create unique opportunities; create sustainable, diverse farm lands, or come up with super creative ideas to ensure the ratio between carbon to oxygen is stabilized.
Read about Our Circular Economy II idea here to give you inspiration!
And if you don’t think any of this is a problem,
Read about the children in Pakistan not being able to go to school in the first part of this series due to serious pollution waves in Our Circular Eco Economy (I).
A labourer makes bread along a road amid heavy smog in Lahore [File: Arif Ali/AFP]
This Article is Written by:
Ashley Heacock
MIT Sloan School of Management, MBA
Harvard Kennedy School, MPA
The George Washington University, BA Economics, BA International Relations
My Website for Organizational Consulting and Personal Healing Sessions: awakeningconsciousness.community
Email: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Read the Series on Our Circular Eco Economy Here:
Our Circular Eco Economy (III)
