This is a guest post by Sharon Astyk, who posts here as jewishfarmer. This is an abridged version of a post which was previously published on Causabon's Book on scienceblogs.
The is a guest post by John Michael Greer, excerpted from a longer post he wrote. I have also included a short excerpt from Sharon Astykz's response to JMG's post, and a few Campfire questions.
I wrote this article over a year ago and was reminded of it by the recent BBC documentary A Farm for the Future. Since it was posted big changes have occurred politically and financially. Credit and commodity markets are...