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The global pandemic has highlighted something fascinating.
Hawaii has a seven day food supply.
New York has a four day food supply.
Los Angeles has a three day food supply.
If you think about it, we are becoming aware of how we are all living on figurative islands. More than 95% of the food coming into LA or NYC is brought in by long distance trucking freight. An estimated 30% of the traffic on the George Washington Bridge in NYC is food delivery trucks.
We are not just island cities, we are island homes… Take a moment to consider that 50% of Americans were farming in 1880. Now less than 2% of the nation is employed in agriculture. From another perspective, in 1945 Americans grew 40% of their food in their backyard gardens. Now we grow 0.1% of our food in our backyards.
The logistics of Island reality actually now apply everywhere because we’ve outsourced everything; we have supply chains for toilet paper and surgical masks that wrap 12,000 miles around the world.
If our national government and peoples really cared about homeland security, it would not be the blocking the entrance of hard working immigrants (that grow and harvest most of our outsourced food) or chasing terrorism around the world that we would pour our hundreds of billions of dollars into. We would instead be building a resilient, decentralized food and distribution system for every community. It’s ludicrous how distributed and outsourced our daily lives are.
We are capable of so much independence through cooperation with our own environment.
By learning to work in a co-creative process with mother nature and her extraordinary variety of species, farmers and consumers will participate to witness richer soils for every community and more abundance of life and health than has been seen in human history. Needy People will Helped by us. We have to save our earth and in this Global pandemic situation.
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