Organic Farming Without Fossil Fuels Using Only Draft Animals

September 26–28, Tunbridge, Vermont

 

 

‘Recently I have begun more than ten books dealing with subjects of sustainability, peak oil, Natural Step principles, and other subjects of the day. Yet I can't seem to get more than a third of the way through any of them without throwing the book down with disgust. None seem to be cognizant of the complexity of our cultural predicament. Each offers a seemingly simple recipe for better living through simplification or organics or pedestrian power. Who couldn’t support such high–minded principles? But these prescriptions ignore the balances and vacuums that naturally evolve in response to our actions’.

 

‘Unlike the oil ‘shocks’ of the 1970s, the current energy crisis is almost certain to be long–lasting. None of the quick fixes proposed by pundits and politicians – drilling in protected wilderness and maritime areas, curbs on commodity speculators, pressure on members of Opec to increase output – is likely to have much impact’.

 

 

 

‘We, Cliff Harris and Randy Mann, believe that the warming and even the cooling of global temperatures are the result of long–term climatic cycles, solar activity, sea–surface temperature patterns and more. However, Mankind’s activities of the burning of fossil fuels, massive deforestations, the replacing of grassy surfaces with asphalt and concrete, the ‘Urban Heat Island Effect’, are making conditions ‘worse’ and this will ultimately enhance the Earth’s warming process down the meteorological roadway in the next several decades’.

 

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