Re: <nettime> Strom vs Morozov: knockdown punch

[Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@autistici.org>]

Le 17/07/2022 à 07:48, Brian Holmes a écrit :
The only part of your text where I might disagree,
> Jean-Noel, is that the future lies in scaling down toward simple 
> agriculture. Scaling down, yes, that's a must, but it will still take 
> effective forms of social organization and new, non-polluting energy 
> sources to face all this without massive human die-offs. 

Modern massive-scale agriculture necessitate high tech tools, a lot of 
low-cost energy, and carbone-energy dependant products like pesticides 
or fertilizers. Nothing sustainable. Moreover, the most massive 
agricultural tools accelerate the current erosion and disappearance of 
the soil. The new climate system alternance drought/flooding increases 
this erosion. Small scale farming and rural communities are the future, 
when oil and gas will be so expensive. Such mutation has started. In 
Europe, there is a growing escape from big cities to small territories, 
with desire of self-sustainable life, but in solidarity networks, and 
the Covid was a trigger.

Look at the great success of the french non-profit organisation " 
L'atelier Paysan". They started ten years ago with about 6 open-source 
DIY organic farming machines, and they show now more than 80 differents 
machines, all designed for DIY, recycling, low-cost, low energy, farming.
https://www.latelierpaysan.org/Plans-et-Tutoriels

They have organised hundreds training courses and workshops everywhere 
in Europe, and they start now to work in other continents.
https://www.latelierpaysan.org/Training-courses

Their book, in the Anthropocene collection from Le seuil, "Reprendre la 
terre aux machines", "Taking back the land from the machines", ( 
https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/reprendre-la-terre-aux-machines-l-atelier-paysan/9782021478174 
) has a huge success, and could easily be translated to english.

JN
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