The rain is absolutely torrential. Thunder cracking directly overhead, hold on to your hats. It is most welcome.
Most of the picture-perfect olive groves that Spain is known for, receive EU grants (€350/ hectare to plough) After this storm passes, they will be inaccessible, flooded, and the top soil a bit more eroded.
Man, not the sun, is the principal driver of localised changes to ecosystems. When the rain hits my land it is stored. When thevsun hits my land, the ground cover absorbs and slowly releases heat. The bare soil next door hits 60c in summer. The hydrological cycle is disrupted.
It is very difficult to do the maths to prove to the genersl population what that means for the climate. But it is easy to see what it means for our ecosystems.
Millions of bad decisions since we discovered agriculture, accelerating over the last hundred years, exponential the last 40-50 years, result in the current big ag complex. Join up the millions of plots of land being farmed in an unnaturall way, multiply out the local broken hydrological cycles, you dont need a person on social media to join the dots for you.
And you really should question why there are still significant voices playing down our direct role in ecosystem collapse. You just don't hear the naked truth that we have been shitting on our own doorstep for too long and the consequences are playing out before our eyes.
"They" can't tell you what to think, but they sure can tell you what to think about.
They talk about climate change, global warming and similar terms - such a trigger, and such a vast concept to get our head round. We either get super freaked out/ depressed, or mostly switch off, overwhelmed. That strategy is playing right into our chimp brain. It's clever.
The day a govt and corp talk and act in terms of dealing with global ecosystem collapse, global because they join the dots of local ecosystem collapse, then they have my vote, but it won't happen because they work on an exploitationall economic model. Is there any other sort? No, but there are ways that's more sustainable than others. (The only thing Man literally creates is art. Every other moment, we just exploit what we inherited from creation )
Anyway, until society wakes up and runs itself along eco-friendly lines, and refuses to support big ag production as is, I'm afraid we are on a one way track to famine at one end, and slow degeneration through malnutrition ( obesity being that signal,) at the other.
Why? Because I am not the only one who can no longer rely on the seasons. I might be able to adapt, to "control" my veg garden, snd I can have groundcover and shade trees and chickens to mitigste agsinst weird rain, wind and sun, but I sure have no way to controlv the vast majority of the land around me.
Consumers could force hands quicker than me ranting or govt policy. Like @bitcoin bull said about changing the financial system peacefully, bankrupt the fuckers. Equally speedy change could be off the back of the masses refusing to buy shit food.
They say you cannot afford good food
I say, if it's nutrient rich, you don't need a lot of food. Really, its a lie that big ag and huge scale farming is the only way to secure a huge food supply for better fed, healthier populations. Production from small market gardens is insane. And now I am rambling. Cheers
#km0 #growstr #local #ecological #Spain #olives #circular-economy
Olive Grove Eggs
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