You're Not Saving the Planet
Me on a Podcast and Me with Some Thoughts
This is a fun one. Sit down, grab a bowl of this morning’s wild blackberry harvest, allowing the dew-turned-black-goodness to soak into your pricked digits … and enjoy.
I recently was gifted the great pleasure to sit down and share a long-form conversation with my dear friend, Chris Geisler. He runs the Chris Geisler Podcast in the UK and, after our first episode together went viral, we thought #2 would be fun, at the very least.
I don’t like summarizing in short-form writing what was shared in long-form speaking and so, if kincentric rewilding interests you … if humans trying to save the planet and failing miserably interests you … if the disconnection between agriculture and civilization interests you … if questioning the modern and oh so destructive narrative that us modern humans can rise up and save the day with more control and technology interests you, give this one a listen…
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Finally got around to listening to this. I really appreciated a lot of what you had to say, especially the central idea of letting go of the outcome.
I'm very interested in this idea, not only from an agricultural perspective but also a theological one: "ends and means," to borrow language from other thinkers in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
There isn't much distinction between religion and agriculture in my mind. Although you use slightly different language and offer a different perspective, I think there's a lot of overlap between what you are doing and what I am trying to do over in Tennessee, albeit on a smaller scale.