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James Samuel
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The advantages of modern systems tend to be cancelled out as we become increasingly dependent on them. ~ Ivan Illich What systems have we become increasingly dependent on? Well one I’m painfully aware of is the industrial food system - from seed to soil to harvest to processing, and distribution.
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James Samuel
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Until quite recently, all human communities had the capacity to construct their own homes, grow their own food and care for their own sick. Today, we need large-scale systems to do all this for us and life without these systems soon becomes unimaginable, or imaginable only as a source of horror.
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Phil Cockfield
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"imaginable only as a source of horror" - 👹
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