[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networked-Labour] Globalisation v localisation

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:55 PM
Subject: [Networked-Labour] Globalisation v localisation
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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&>
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