"Dare to be naïve!" -Bucky Fuller
According to a United Nations report, the only way we can feed all humanity is with local, small scale, organic farming. Wow.
My question is not so much, how do we start small scale self sufficient communities, but how to plant and link up the whole planet into one cohesive, sustainable, local grassroots community. With political incentives, this would be simple and easy. Just tax miles travelled by an item and use the money to build up local production.
In my vision of a garden planet, all the world would be one lovely, friendly garden. It would be so sustainably and abundantly planted with permaculture, that travelers could pick and eat as they travel along the beautiful lanes.
Gardeners have the highest happiness rating of all professions.
We can easily afford to subsidize semi retired, or volunteer citizens to help maintain permaculture that benefits the neighborhood, that keeps food dropping into our hands. Money may not grow on trees, but food most assuredly does.
No money would be needed; instead we would have a love economy. A woman could walk alone across an entire continent, safely and without needing to carry food or money. Everyone would at least have a guaranteed basic income. That could come from taxes on use of the commons that we all share as our birthright. We might still have some form of money, but it would not be very important.
This year, grow something. Plant a huge half acre garden for the whole neighborhood. Or just an herb pot on the windowsill.
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