As far as “buying local”, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be seed-bombing food plants everywhere. Destroying the soil to grow a field of peppers for example, to mass produce and mass distribute them across the world, is not sustainable. Why should food even be “bought” local or not? How are we not lining the streets with fruit trees? Why are urban environments packed full of shrubs and bushes that aren’t growing food? Why are we using lawns to just grow trimmed grass? Why aren’t we utilizing natures impeccable clockwork of self-maintaining edible gardens and forests? We have all the food energy we need raining down from the sky, why aren’t our rooftops being used? We could be living in an abundance of food, all local, all free. Human societies have done that for thousands of years both before and after the so-called “agricultural revolution.” We know it’s possible. We figured out how to turn deserts into forests by just digging a bunch of semi-circles and waiting for a bit.
But we don’t because number go down instead of up. There’s no money to be made in that, so even the most altruistic of investors will be deterred from the lack of monetary ROI and not the ROI of a better world. It’s like the world is stuck in Dark Ages Europe, where people couldn’t imagine how the world could function without the Christian god, the gospel, and the divine leadership of Kings and Queens. Now we’re in a dark age where people can’t imagine the world functioning without money, economic models, and the divine leadership of investors and CEOs. Thinking otherwise makes you a heretic, and considering how they used to burn thousands for the heresy of atheism much like we kill thousands for the heresy of environmentalism.
We credit the Enlightenment era for getting us out of this braindead mindset, yet little has really changed. Whether you call it capitalism or socialism, we’re still draining water tables and making land uninhabitable, then turning the land into gravel and call it “development” or “productivity”. The whole universe is open to this sort of insanity. We really need to go back to the ideas that inspired the Enlightenment and opened European minds to something other than their death-cult religions, like the indigenous critiques of Native Americans.
I’m an atheist to people who believe in money - I just go one God further.
Isn’t that why Israel was created out of thin fucking air to begin with? So Europe could have a place for Jews after moving them all out? Wasn’t Lord Balfour (of the Balfour Declaration) a white-supremacist anti-semite?