IN THEORY AND PRACTICE…

HISTORY

to read more about the Sheffield Organic Food Initiative – SOFI Formation

To find out more about Richard Clare – HERE

To read the booklet that goes with the video follow this link  –  EAT MY WORDS – The Ediculture Course

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“Throughout the history of man there has never been enough to go around for everyone—there has always been scarcity. Therefore, the basic problem was: who gets what? Who survives and who doesn’t? Every society has had a different system for deciding that question, and which group survived was usually decided by war.

But just because it has always been that way doesn’t mean that it always has to be that way in the future. Just because there was scarcity in the past, does that mean that there has to be scarcity in the future?

Mankind now has enough knowledge to be able to invent our way into a future of plenty..

We produce more than enough food for everyone, but much of it rots or is eaten by rodents because we don’t have the means of storing, preserving, and transporting it. But, with adequate energy we could grow, preserve, and distribute plenty of food for everyone. In fact, if needed, we could probably grow two or three times as much as we do now…..

…But most of all, if people no longer have to fight each other over limited resources, then the basic reason for war will be gone and war will become obsolete. The oldest dreams of mankind–peace, prosperity–will have come true.

People living now, for the first time in history, have the opportunity, privilege, and responsibility to help to make all these things come true. All of humanity has struggled, dreamed, hoped, worked, and prayed for this moment in history. It is up to us to help make it happen.” – Buckminster Fuller-