<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anna Harris</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anna@shsh.co.uk">anna@shsh.co.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:55 PM<br>Subject: [Networked-Labour] Globalisation v localisation<br>To: Networked Labour <<a href="mailto:networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc">networked-labour_igopnet@lists.igopnet.cc</a>><br><br><br><div dir="auto"><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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:</span></p><div align="left"><blockquote><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"The best way to visualise the activity of a marketplace which deals in finite planetary resources as though they were infinite, <strong>is a man in a tree steadily sawing off the branch he is sitting on. </strong>And yes, he's three quarters of the way through that branch at the time of going to press. </span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">But there is <strong>another paradigm </strong>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 <strong>roots in pre-industrial revolution practices </strong>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. </span></p><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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 <strong>simple values adopted by countryside communities </strong>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. </span></p><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Stand these two models side by side – and <strong>reflect on which is the more responsible template for the survival of planet Earth</strong>, its flora, fauna and human inhabitants.... </span></p><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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". </span></p></blockquote><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><strong>Julian Rose </strong>is an early pioneer of UK organic agriculture, a writer, activist and President of the<em> International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside. </em></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">See <a href="http://app.getresponse.com/click.html?x=a62b&lc=dIxZH&mc=JV&s=y8kBdP&u=ZS&y=l&" target="_blank">www.notthembutus.<wbr>wordpress.com/2016/11/11/<wbr>globalisation-v-localisation-<wbr>by-julian-rose</a>. </span></p><p align="left" style="line-height:18px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p><div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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