Join me for al live recording of my Monday Podcast. Going live at 1:20pm Central. Today, we talk about working against nature and ask an important question: why? Today’s Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs and Permies.com Paul Wheaton over at Wheaton Labs just released 16 hours of footage from his Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree innovators event. Using very little fuel, and producing next to no smoke, the folks down at the lab created a rocket sauna, cooktop, dehydrator, kiln, and a bunch of heater options for smaller spaces, and full-size homes. Check it out here: https://permies.com/wiki/188928f495/Earth-Friendly-Heat-Full-Event This Week’s Livestream Schedule Headed to Back to the Land Festival this weekend: Backtothelandfestival.com Tales From The Prepper Pantry Frugality Tip From Margo Shopping Report for 9/18/2022 Operation Independence Main topic of today’s show: Why Fight Nature? This morning while driving at 3:30am, I got to thinking about circadian rhythms. As I Look around, we are not very successful when we go against nature. 7 layers of a forest in Permaculture Training dogs Raising children Why then, do we think it is a good idea to :darken” the earth to fight climate change? How does trying to force the atmosphere into submission have a hope of being successful? Have we learned nothing? This fight against nature is something that technology-minded leaders come back to over and over. When we do it on a large scale, there are very real, negative impacts. Mao and the song sparrows So WHY go against nature in the environment, or in interactions with people around you. Would it not be better to seek to understand the realities of nature and go with those to impact better outcomes? Which brings me to politics: A big problem in how governments and policy works is that it often goes against human nature. Humans rebel against being told what to do Humans will act selfishly (and that is not a bad thing) Humans are herd animals and flourish in communities (Like real ones) And, yes, humans are violent - we are - our nature is not al poetry and roses How then would it look if we worked with nature in governing ourselves? Rather than issue black and white edicts for great area “problems”, we would find ways to incentivize positive outcomes (Tapping into selfish, tapping into the herd mentality) Point out that herd instincts make many of us get a selfish rush from helping our communities. Set up our culture and educational effort to empower people to find their purpose so that there are more people pouring energy into that and fewer people focused on being dicks Accept that there are a percentage of humans who are psychopaths and create system where they are disincentivized to harm. Accept that there is no perfect. With this mindset, working with nature, what else can we solve? What about environmental concerns? Leaving the forest alone vs stewarding the forest (We are part of nature, therefore we are part of forests. We evolved together) Discovering parts of nature that can help us: Ivermectin as an anti parasitic. Some kid turned algae into some sort of plastic…? Which makes me want to start asking more what if questions. Think about it: our dollar is based on petroleum. In some ways, tapping into that energy store is tapping into nature - but is there a better way? Guys, I know this idea sounds crazy and sci fi. But if you think about it - there must be many discoveries of this scale to be made. But we miss them if we focus on how to control nature rather than to work with it. Which brings us full circle: working with nature is the whole foundation of permaculture as a design science. So much effort is put into mono cropping in the form of heavy equipment, and fighting pest pressure, and fungi, and so much more. The earth is poisoned in the interest of fighting the natural way things grow — in plant communities - almost as if diversity is part of nature’s plans. And we accept the notion that we can only feed the world if we abuse the soil and interfere with nature. We have been programmed to see things that are grey in black and white terms. While this simplification of the world can make it easier to get things organized and rally people around projects and causes, it comes at a cost. And a very damaging one at that: We have developed some pretty big blinders. Why not find a way to see beyond them? Why not work with nature in our homestead designs, business set up, political efforts, environmental projects, cutting edge research, and, yes, in commercial food production? Why fight nature? Make it a great week! GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIKHBbSw31Y