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Farmers have a close relationship with nature , seeing life Hz go on right in front of their eyes marvel in what the earth can bring about . We would n’t survive without their help . Appreciating farming in the natural world , cave in what it ask to flourish and provide the essentials to hold out is an authoritative process . There ’s dish in the family relationship between farmers and what they grow .
The pursuit is an excerpt fromMiraculous Abundanceby Perrine Hervé - Gruyer & Charles Hervé - Gruyer . It has been adapted for the web .
We are constitutive farmer and majestic of it . We find our joy in an sexual and daily fellowship with plants and animals . Like mothers , Fannie Farmer bear life . The body of our client is mold from the body of the fruit and vegetables that we develop with tenderness and respect .
Our deepest desire is to understand , from within , the dynamics of life , at work in the territory and roots , stems and leaf , legs and wings , rain and wind . By what miracle are minerals from the bedrock assembled to form , mixed with sun and water system , the flaccid , lovesome body of our domestic ass , the gloomy or brown eyes of our small fry ?
“ The grain of life and the grain of thought , replacement to the material , ” pen Teilhard de Chardin . Our job is only to serve this movement of lifetime , with infinite gratitude .
In the School of the Sea and of the Land
For many twelvemonth , I have been trying to understand the association between what I discovered about the dynamics of life history in the heart of tropical forests and coral Reef confab in my youth , and what takes stead , what is replace , in that which is develop in our gardens . Can we expect to go about , in our Normandy vale , something like the flamboyance happen in the hobo camp , the exuberance of the coral reefs ?
I also think about how we as humans interact with nature to depict our sustenance . Is it possible to make up a post - oil gild that immix the harmony of the first peoples with the cognitive and technical advances of the modernistic era ?
I ’m not rush to any conclusions . It took me thirty long time to interpret that a simple and sinewy principle is at work in nature , a moral force that exalt the first citizenry . We could name this dynamic bio - copiousness . Bio - abundance is the artistic production of doing a lot with very little . Only what ’s animated can achieve this .
Little Fish Become Big
Biological summons — and they alone — have the power to increase resource : The petty fish becomes a big Pisces the Fishes , the seedling gives way to a mighty tree , yield produces a thousand seed that become almost as many new plants .
The first peoples intuitively understand that they could play a persona in these living resources that accrue to , without weakening , the surrounding environment — especially if they contribute to its aggradation with good practice — replanting perdition , for example . They have limited their harvest to an acceptable threshold , imposing on themselves sort of self - regularization similar to those governing plants and creature .
As long as the balance is respected , industrial plant , animals , and human can take the resources they need , while the surrounding environment stay to evolve , tardily but certainly , toward more complexness and prolificacy .
In other words , bio - teemingness gives plant , animal , and human communities a chance to sustainably play all their needs , as long as the harvest is in counterbalance with the biologic processes that are capable of renew .
The resources produced by biological processes are organic : plant and animals . Since the appearance of the first humanity , these plant and animals have supported our creation , giving us enough to flow us , clothe us , warm us , move us , bring around us , build our habitats , our musical instrument , our ritual objects . Over the age and until the first appearance into modernness , organic resource have made almost all of the necessary resource for human communities .
Only a few minerals complemented them , mostly superfluous ones — rock and branding iron .
But biologic processes also supply us with other services — immense service — because they can powerfully modify the physical surround : They exert influence on clime ( rain , temperature ) and geology ( soil formation , limestone ) , purify water , raise the O content of the atmosphere , and sequester carbon .
take the resources that we need by just pink into the natural process expanding in the biosphere is akin to drawing upon the involvement of capital letter without reduce the capital itself . It is wise to . It is also possible to take abundant mineral resources — stones and base metals , which form the world ’s crust — without significantly eroding the unity of the planet .
We man , like other living organisms , can take , but also give . love natural resources but also advance a dynamic enrichment of the surrounding surroundings . Take part in the rhythm of fertility . In other words , we can cooperate with other life - forms to increase cap , and therefore the share of interest we can use . In this respect , we should favor cooperative relationships rather than predation , commit to limiting our wasting disease , creating closed - iteration cycles to convert all of our permissive waste into Modern resource .
This is what is taught by permaculture and biomimicry .
In view of the above , we could well describe bio - abundance this way : the creation of recyclable goods based on a bio - inspired use of renewable raw resources . These goods are available in amount and sustainably .
They do not produce waste , do not damage the wellness of ecosystems , and may eventually contribute to their betterment .
Bio - copiousness is a concept that is young without really being Modern , of course . It seemed to us an crucial matter to draw because most of us underestimate the potential productivity of a healthy ecosystem and the possibleness for humans to contribute to the growth of biological imagination with deliberate and thorough observation of the dynamic at play , and interact with control and regard within these moral force .
The first peoples live in what ethnologist describe as societies of copiousness — we could say bio - abundance . We mentioned the Wayana citizenry : They do not hive away food ( except in very rare circumstances ) , have no fear of going hungry because they know that their needs will still be covered by the surrounding nature . Respect for life is at the nerve of their civilization and otherworldliness . Their elaborate noesis of their born surround allow them to take full advantage of bio - abundance . mod society has turn its back on a nature that it artificializes , in turning harm biological cognitive operation and undermining the ability of ecosystem to generate bio - abundance .
This transgression was made possible by the exercise of fossil fuel , which have helped to generate another form of plenty , very dissimilar in its inwardness . The current glut of consumer goods comes from an extractive economy that preys on nonrenewable mineral imagination , use up organic resources without any sentience of acceptable levels , without returning anything to the cycle of fertility . This manakin of copiousness could be called technoabundance .
It digs holes in the earthly concern and quickly eat its uppercase . “ The biosphere is a set of geochemical cycles that plug into broth of material with energy , between which interchange flows . The catamenia allows stocks to recover . What does the economy do ? It draws from rude resources , that which has no economical value in its instinctive country , without worrying about its reproduction , ” write René Passet .
We propose the following definition of technoabundance : creating goods with little or no recyclable time value based on a predatory utilisation of natural resources , renewable and nonrenewable . These good are usable in quantity , but for a special time only , and not for all . They produce waste and contribute to the destruction of the biosphere .
Living on Earth as a Poet or Murderer?
The industrial agriculture bring forth by our consumer order is a unplumbed perversion of the farm profession : Rather than a jock of lifespan , it becomes a sower of expiry . James Leonard Farmer are the first victims , and awareness is emerge within the profession . Industrial agriculture is only a reflection of our biocidal company : It down live being in quantities that exceed comprehension , it stink of death . It is authoritative to block up it as shortly as possible , before it definitively degrades the only known living major planet . Yet like a compost heap , our society carry within it the come of tomorrow ’s world .
lease us remember those riptide that Pupoli craftily mastered . Have confidence : The earth has the big businessman to transform what croak into new course of sprightliness .
The postmodern society that we will make together will operate in the mood of bio - abundance . A new form of abundance .
The news is good . Most of our contemporaries do not suspect the potential of biologic processes . To vacate the technoabundance model is , they believe , to sink into penury . But no ! This can lead to bio - abundance .
How do we get there ? We explore agrarian themes in this book : developing the greatest possible understanding of biological processes , and psychoanalyze our interactions with the biosphere using the logic of life . It ’s a 180 - level change from what we have done over the preceding centuries in our so - called highly-developed club . But we have learn a lot from our misunderstanding , and learn much about the working of nature . We are well outfit than ever to enter an era of respectfulness and fulfilment of life . We just have to develop our conscience .
A Future Green Society
The green guild key in [ this book ] is a company founded on bio - abundance . By surrounding every house , every hamlet , every city in an intensely live lifelike cocoon , give back to the earth the cover of trees that humanity have greedily stripped from it , taking great care to limit our harvest to only the resource create each class by the biological process , we can — like Japan during the Edo civilisation — allow for for our needs with biological rather than mineral resources . We can live sustainably on solid ground .
We will give up our gadgets and waste material , but we will be fertile with the essential goods — palpable and impalpable — that make for a really honorable life .
This is what permaculture offer , which is both a scientific discipline and an artistic creation of animation . We are only at the very beginning of the adventure ; the rest of the story remains to be written , and each of us can give .
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