how organic farmers saved the world

HOW ORGANIC FARMERS SAVED THE WORLD
Now, I understand that as a species it wouldn't be prudent to sit around all mopey, feeling sorry for ourselves and wailing about ending up in the stew pot. If man wasn't optimistic about the future there would be a lot less conception of offspring. Why pop out junior if we are all going to die? So perhaps optimism is a survival trait. Or, optimism is a survival trait shared by the young. Then, if you grow old before a dinosaur eats you or you vomit out a lung in a bloody spray from an exotic tropical disease, you grow into a sense of pessimism and despair and try to warn the young whippersnappers who ignore you and keep having kids anyway. Or, and I don't like this theory as much because it doesn't make me old and wise but old and afraid, some people are just naturally predisposed towards a gloomy outlook that is only interrupted for a short period of time by hormones, forcing them to perpetuate their line before they realize what a mistake it all was.
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Regardless, there is such a thing as too optimistic, and I think this is shared by 99% of the people. Only a select few have the "bad" gene of panic and pessimism, allowing them to prepare for a calamity and being the salvation of mankind for that period of time. We will repopulate after the mass die-off. Each abnormal gene, if it survives, does play a survival role. No matter what calamity strikes, that normally abnormal trait allows a species the chance to survive. For instance, if a bird species could only survive on plants that grew above a certain altitude and those plants for some reason disappeared through weather patterns altering, the bird that could also survive on another plant would survive. That is why you see biological leaps in evolution rather that gradual increments of adaptation. The niche needed for survival disappeared and those with abnormal traits survived to pass on the new genes. In the above mentioned case, the paranoid doesn't pass on the new genes but they do allow survival in the first place.
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I still see a heck of a lot of optimism amongst preppers and survivalists. They correctly identify the potential problems we face, yet they still cling to happy thoughts and a pleasant future. Gore Warming that wipes out most of the globes grain production, drowns most of the cities won't cause anything other than total catastrophe? The end of cheap and abundant oil that allows five billion extra people to eat isn't going to lead to a 99% die-off? Come on, people! Think these things through to its logical conclusion. If the deer population is a neighboring nation park won't survive two days after the grocery shelves are bare, what makes you think that plants and people will fare any better? Once transport and energy inputs from oil cease past a certain point ( plus the weather remains screwy ), it is game over for feeding all our excess population. Why aren't you listening to the early warnings, clear enough if you don't have your head up your butt because it is moist and warm and reminds you of a happier time in the womb? Food prices are continuously going up, despite what price oil is or how fast or how slow we inflate the money supply. That should be your canary in the coal mine.
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The die-off WILL happen. And we will be left with a post-Mayan type future. Only a few scattered villages remain amongst the ruins of a once large and thriving civilization. The resources of a civilization are all wiped out during a decline. Everything is consumed, from the seed corn to the last of the soil fertility, to the infrastructure being overtaxed as maintenance is ignored. Only a very small percentage of the population can survive on the meager resources left. Just a small fraction of the food needed to feed an excess population disappearing for good leads to widespread hunger and malnourishment and then the spread of disease and warfare. Okay, perhaps not in that order if there are any preemptive strikes. Like occupying the last decent oil reserves country. Or sending your soldiers out to attack while they are still well fed and strong.
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Organic farming might, in the long run, save the world. But first those farmers need to save themselves through the die-off. It is stored food and bullets that allow them to emerge out the other side and begin to replant for the rebirth. These people that are counting on organic gardens as their survival strategy can't ignore the necessity of survival first. I'm not necessarily pointing fingers at preppers, but more the Green Movement types that see a long slow decline giving us time to transition ourselves into a locally grown, decentralized agrarian society. It will not happen. The collapse will happen quickly. The die-off will occur, not a low slow decline in population numbers due to couples not being able to afford kids, of choosing less children because of a contracting economy. All of the vested money interests larding up our society will not give up power or wealth. It will be business as usual until we fall off the cliff. Very few societies ever had the will power and courage to reverse course and travel the painful path full of sacrifices. They are not the rule but the exception.
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Think about all the wealth that will oppose a decentralized farming society with alternate energy. Big Ag. The food processors. Every level of government and how their tax base is set up. Big energy. Every civil servant sucking off current taxes. Every recipient of tax dollars, from retirees to welfare mothers, living off the current way of doing things. Big business. In short, pretty much everybody. Not only do the elite enrich themselves with Business As Usual, they leave a few crumbs to suck the rest of us in. Any book presenting a glorious future after ideal changes are made miss this point completely. Our entire society will not make meaningful change because it goes against their interests. Even if a majority agreed there was a problem, which will never happen. Because the vast majority will sleep until the end, blissful in their bread and circus life. No one will change, so a minority go about planning a organic farming life boat that will sustain them. And then they are overrun by the mobs eating them and their plants. And any denial that the worst is going to happen pretty much buys into this "time to transition" mindset.
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Assume the worse. Plan on it, prepare for it. Most likely it is going to happen. The petri dish is full and still overflowing. The dish population will crash soon. We are no smarter than bacteria eating all the nutrients. If, by a genuine miracle, we don't meet a crash and burn fate, you can be thankful. You spend money on home insurance and are thankful when it doesn't burn down. You don't mourn the money spent, but the fact that it still stands. Peace of mind isn't free. Stop looking at prepping as an investment but insurance. You call it insurance, but act like it is an investment. Oh, I can't do A, B, or C, nothing bad might happen and then I've wasted the money. Sound familiar?
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Organic farmers will save mankind, but only after they emerge from their bunkers. They won't change society before it goes down in flames. Oh, look, the Obammy's planted a garden. But what else have they done that isn't a carbon copy of Bush politics? Nothing. This bitch is going down in flames. Put on a damn parachute.
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