Peak Food?

A lengthy gem of an article I recently found, which raises serious questions about the future for human life on earth. What can YOU do, right now? What do YOU do every day to live more sustainably? These are interesting times, how interested are YOU in them?

"We will not treat the earth sustainably when we do not see it and feel it in our daily lives and know directly that what surrounds us is what keeps us and our descendants alive and healthy... There are too many of us to go "back to the land," but we must preserve the connection. In coming decades necessity will dictate that everyone produce their own food wherever and however they can, but more important, we must reconnect ourselves to the earth we have abused. You who put aside a little corner of your urban homestead where things green can flourish are preserving the connection as best you can, and must teach others to do likewise. You are preserving an essential thread to our past, which will, if we are lucky, allow us to have a future." - Nicholas C Arguimbau
(http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26064.htm)

More proof, if you needed it, that we must do all we can, now, to learn skills once passed down to us by our elders. A good paying job will not replenish the drying aquifers. A healthy bank account will not produce food for your kitchen table. Getting outside and reconnecting with nature, understanding her moods, learning to give and take from the earth in a sustainable manner is all we should really be doing.