Just back from Glastonbury with a lot to think about and a bulging intray. So, briefly ... we need to degrow fast so I'm proposing one sheep out one trader out, not one sheep farmer out one trader out!
Thanks Pierre, perhaps I'll try to pen something soon. The planned posts are backing up and the politics are speeding up, which makes it hard to keep on keeping up!
Thanks for the links Mark. Will try to follow up on the theme of extreme composting & sheep at some point ... yet another post to schedule ...
Kathryn, yes duolingo does tend to go for the stereotypes, huh? Draig, cennin, rygbi...
I don't take much notice of the farmer-clown farmer debate, in essence we're all cosplaying capitalism (farmers or not) because the vast majority of us certainly ain't getting rich by it!
Removing a city trader for each farmer lost - is that something like a 1000 a week across all of Europe?
Luckily the collapse of global industrial civilisation is going to remove most city traders fairly soon.
Welsh hills can be as fertile as anywhere else - see Elizabeth West's book Hovel in the Hills - it just takes extreme composting and planting shelter belts.
Removing a trader concurrently as a sheep farmer, that would make people think! Although I think a trader will do much more damage to the environment than sheep!
Please, please, please Chris, just a few sentences about the US’s attack on Iran. You are astute about the state of the world. Perhaps you see some threads that tie back in to local agrarianism.
Chris, I really enjoyed the gentle wit and playfulness of this piece.
I salute your efforts to learn Welsh. It was my father’s mother-tongue, but lost to me as I grew up in the English Midlands. (Irish, also: a generation farther away.) I pursued some Welsh via Duolingo during the pandemic. I learned the handy phrase, Bore da, draig!
Just back from Glastonbury with a lot to think about and a bulging intray. So, briefly ... we need to degrow fast so I'm proposing one sheep out one trader out, not one sheep farmer out one trader out!
Thanks Pierre, perhaps I'll try to pen something soon. The planned posts are backing up and the politics are speeding up, which makes it hard to keep on keeping up!
Thanks for the links Mark. Will try to follow up on the theme of extreme composting & sheep at some point ... yet another post to schedule ...
Kathryn, yes duolingo does tend to go for the stereotypes, huh? Draig, cennin, rygbi...
Thanks for the other comments. More soon, I hope
Thanks for the comments - I'll try to reply after the festival!
I like the idea that you've considered learning Welsh, sounds like a challenge just as difficult as that peak would be for me to climb :)
Regarding your first point, an article by Ugo Bardi came through at the same time which has an interesting analysis of human reaction:
https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/can-we-stop-the-wave-of-evil
I don't take much notice of the farmer-clown farmer debate, in essence we're all cosplaying capitalism (farmers or not) because the vast majority of us certainly ain't getting rich by it!
Removing a city trader for each farmer lost - is that something like a 1000 a week across all of Europe?
Luckily the collapse of global industrial civilisation is going to remove most city traders fairly soon.
Welsh hills can be as fertile as anywhere else - see Elizabeth West's book Hovel in the Hills - it just takes extreme composting and planting shelter belts.
Removing a trader concurrently as a sheep farmer, that would make people think! Although I think a trader will do much more damage to the environment than sheep!
People who sneer at “clown”, part time or hobby farmers give themselves away as having the privilege of a well paid full time job or a private income!
I very much enjoy your writing and look forward to your new book .
Please, please, please Chris, just a few sentences about the US’s attack on Iran. You are astute about the state of the world. Perhaps you see some threads that tie back in to local agrarianism.
Chris, I really enjoyed the gentle wit and playfulness of this piece.
I salute your efforts to learn Welsh. It was my father’s mother-tongue, but lost to me as I grew up in the English Midlands. (Irish, also: a generation farther away.) I pursued some Welsh via Duolingo during the pandemic. I learned the handy phrase, Bore da, draig!
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