---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anna Harris <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:55 PM Subject: [Networked-Labour] Globalisation v localisation To: Networked Labour <[email protected]> Julian Rose, an early pioneer of organic agriculture in the UK, has written an interesting blog post about different ways of looking at globalisation and localisation: "The best way to visualise the activity of a marketplace which deals in finite planetary resources as though they were infinite, *is a man in a tree steadily sawing off the branch he is sitting on. *And yes, he's three quarters of the way through that branch at the time of going to press. But there is *another paradigm *pushing its way up through the morass of discarded steel and concrete which constitute the scrap heap earth economic order; and that is an altogether different baby, with its *roots in pre-industrial revolution practices *where the land and its resources were regarded with respect and awe, and held to be essential to the health and well-being of all who engaged with them. Here, manual dexterity and a pedigree in good land husbandry were the hallmarks of sustainable living and the guarantee of good food on the table as well as a robust weatherproof home. The *simple values adopted by countryside communities *were largely sacrosanct because they were closely associated with life and death, for the whole family. One lived close to the ground and got to know that ground intimately as a result. Mistreat it, and one blew one's life line to security and prosperity. Stand these two models side by side – and *reflect on which is the more responsible template for the survival of planet Earth*, its flora, fauna and human inhabitants.... In case readers should think I'm talking about some futuristic utopia, let it be known that models filling this description are already in operation all over the world". *Julian Rose *is an early pioneer of UK organic agriculture, a writer, activist and President of the* International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside. * See www.notthembutus.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/globalisation-v-localisation- by-julian-rose <http://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=dIxZH&mc=JV&s=y8kBdP&u=ZS&y=l&> . _______________________________________________ Networked-labour_igopnet mailing list [email protected] http://grups.pangea.org/mailman/listinfo/networked-labour_igopnet -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/