Someone posted elsewhere about how the fertilizer ingredients being disrupted are for *industrial fertilizers*. Basically, for the kind of fertilizer that ends up making the soil poorer while juicing up the plant growth. Anti-regenerative shit.
They also pointed out that there are easy-to-make-in-large-quantities highly effective fertilizers that use extremely common ingredients that aren't toxic, and that enrich the soil and encourage nitrogen fixing plants.
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Whenever we look at the cascading crises coming to a head, I think it's important to realize that a LOT of what we use and what we do industrially is that way *NOT* because it's the best way, the most efficient method, or even the cheapest product:
It's because under neofascism it's the most profit- and politics-centered way.
There's this general breathlessness about how we're all just going to collapse into a seething pile of starvation, desperation, and violence because...
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...unsustainable things are not sustaining.
But for a lot of those unsustainable things, there are readily available, sustainable, cheaper, better options that have been artificially suppressed by bad actors.
Think solar energy until 2015.
Regulatory capture and subsidy abuse under neofascism was essentially the neofascist's innovative replacement of govt-sponsored oligarchy under paleofascism.
Because it has the neofascists' favorite quality: deniability.
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The reason we're all feeling like life-ending apocalypse is just around the corner, rather than a welcome correction and decapitation of the ruling class, is because *we were deliberately acculturated into believing that all change, no matter how beneficial, would be catastrophic*.
Rather than change our point of view, neofascists decided that the only way to be sure was to change our *perspective*, thereby making the paralysis self-healing and self-propagating.
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@johnzajac The only "constant" in the universe is change.
Most humans cannot accept this, because we are just upright animals with relatively short lifespans, mostly operating by rote. Change upsets the routine.
The other goodie is the exponential function. But that is a different topic.
John
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