Self-sustainability used to be the norm in previous decades and centuries. People fended for them selves and fed themselves independently of the local grocery store. Nowadays our civilization has been steered along the path of dependency upon the government and big corporations. As a result most of us reading this might not be able to feed ourselves or survive for long if the supply chains and infrastructure suddenly went off line or collapsed.
It looks like progress in certain fields of mass food production and just-in-time delivery. Modern living appears efficient and streamlined. We can get almost any food or supplies we desire all year long thanks to international trade and imported foodstuffs. The problem is that society has been obliged to sacrifice its independence as a result.
I visited a friend recently who has a piece of land upon which they built a house over twenty years ago, where they live totally off-grid, with no utilities from the government. All their power is from solar panels and batteries. All their water is collected from rain and stored in tanks.
Their system has worked well for decades and they are happier for it. On top of that, they grow much of their food from seed in select little home built green houses, which are more for protection from baboons than anything else.
Here in sunny South Africa we live close to nature and the wild. Indigenous forests border my friend’s property and so there are occasional visits from buck and baboons who tend to damage the gardens. As a result little enclosed dome structures have been erected under which plenty of fresh vegetables can be grown.
This farm is a living example of self-sufficiency and sustainability. However, it is a rare exception and not he norm. By far the majority of people are totally dependent on the shops for food and everything else. Or they are dependent on the government for water and electricity to keep the systems functioning.
Here in South Africa there has been a realization that the majority of local indigenous people are relatively poor and that the real empowering factor is to provide them with land. Not with a house, which is currently going on at a slow and steady pace, but with a piece of land upon which each household can grow its food and become self-sustaining as a subsistence farmer.
That’s how humanity used to live, especially here in Africa. Most folks had cattle or could grow food to survive. However, with modernization, elites engineered the flocking of people to the cities for work and income to survive. This is more to provide cheap, uneducated and dependent labor for the elite, and not to benefit the people.
It may look like standards of living have risen and consumerism is growing. However, people are now trapped in a system where they have no land and no education regarding the ability to sustain themselves. Therefore they lose dignity and self-respect. They measure success in terms of the ability to acquire more trinkets and consumer goods with built-in obsolescence.
I see that in South Africa the mood is that of a desire to return to the land, for the people to revive their agricultural lifestyles as they had in the past. And at this particular critical point in history, it would appear to be a crucial step in the right direction. As the world undergoes the engineered reset and shift to the fourth industrial revolution, it seems like crises are being manufactured along the way.
The supply chain collapse, food shortages and energy throttling are all man-made by the elite today. Add to that the war on fertilizer and resultant drop in food production, and it seems as if a food crisis is leading to actual famine. Most of the famine is across Africa and so my personal perspective and that of the South African government, with regard to reversing this WEF engineered collapse by returning the people to the land, seems crucial.
It seems relatively easy to set up your own food garden and thus return to a sense of self-sufficiency and independence. It bring with is self-respect too. And now is the time for people to get ready for food shortages, especially if fertilizers are being cut back and crops production is dropping.
If we fail to return the people to the land and the land to the people, then we will soon see the rise of a Neo-Feudal society where big corporations own most of the land and control all the food production and – even worse – the water supply. It’s already happening. Neo-slavery will be the result, which appears to be the Agenda2030 plan of the WEF dictatorship of unelected few.
I, for one, am opposed to this enslavement, and thus recommend that the masses return to the land, or at least return to the garden. Learn how to grow your own food and become self-sufficient. Your life will soon depend on it.
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It looks like a little slice of heaven there.
Self-sufficiency gets us closer to the creator and the life force we should be thriving off of better known as nature.
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I couldn't agree more. Yes, a lot are so dependent under the control of corrupt leaders, so I like this way of living having food sufficient and being independent like the old times.
Especially in Africa where it is more natural for society to be involved in the land ownership and subsistence living.
This means corrupt leaders are controlling them, aren't they? How I wish people have freedom to live on their own.
Yes the leaders are often corrupt here. Let's empower the people and give them freedom from controlling leaders with selfish agendas.
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We don't become more sustainable by becoming farmers. We become more sustainable by collaborating more efficiently and by reducing consumption. It is foolish to think you will make a difference growing your own food when you have no idea how to do it. Farming isn't like riding a bycicle, it requires a lot of skill and knowledge to do it well. Escaping society is the opposite of increasing the efficiency of our collaboration as a species. Becoming an amateur farmer is a great educational and therapeutic hobby, but it isn't making the world more sustainable. If you want to improve things, find a local farmer and volunteer with them. Mutual aid is the foundation of prosperity and security and sustainability is another word for "future prosperity". As long as we must sell to earn a living, most of our communication is focused on fostering consumption by enticing greed, envy, lust, boastfulness, selfishness, etc. That only fuels short term destructive behavior. An economy fueled by consumption cannot be sustainable. When we are required to monetarily out perform the rest just in order to survive, we can't stop growing and fostering even more short term consumption. That is the core of the problem. All the rest is like rearranging the chairs on the titanic. To make a difference, foster mutual aid, here is how: https://ecency.com/sustainability/@prosocialisefnd/how-to-begin-the-transition
Awesome, well said friend. I appreciate your insights on fostering mutual aid. Indeed team work is the secret to success.
Here in sunny South Africa it's fairly easy to grow some vegetables in your garden to eat, and I have friends who do it easily for their own subsistence, using Permaculture techniques and bio-mimicry.