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It’s been done, I know.\u00a0 Still, I’d like to put in a call for a 2nd American revolution.\u00a0 Oh, ok, I don’t care what number it is.\u00a0 I’ll settle for another American revolution.<\/p>\n
My American revolution has a bit of\u00a0 Norman Rockwell, a touch of Helen and Scott Nearing, more than a dab of Herbert Marcuse, Paul Goodman and C. Wright Mills, some Benjamin Franklin, the spirit of pioneers and native Americans alike when they relied upon on this seemingly limitless land for food and space.\u00a0 There’s a Victory Garden or two in there as well, plus generations of smart women who canned, dried, jellied, smoked and pickled all sorts of produce and meat.\u00a0 This New American Revolution demands no marches, no banners, no barricades, no guns and no repression.\u00a0 And you can dance all you want.<\/p>\n
What is it?\u00a0 It is a revolution of and for and with the land.\u00a0 It is a revolution that takes the wisdom of a 7th generation Iroquois medicine man who said:\u00a0 “We two-leggeds are so fragile that we must pray and care for all the four leggeds, the winged ones, those who swim in the waters and the plants that grow.\u00a0 Only in their survival lies the possibility of ours.”<\/p>\n
What is it?\u00a0 It is a revolution of and for and by the human spirit.\u00a0 It is a revolution that insists, but gently, that we each put our hand and our back to something that feral nature can alter.\u00a0\u00a0 It could be a garden.\u00a0 It could be a deer hunt.\u00a0 It could be a potted plant outside where the changing seasons affect its growth and life.\u00a0 It could be a regular hike in a park, through all the changes of the seasons, seeing how winter’s quiet fallow time gives ways to springs wild, wet exuberance, the color palette changing from grays, rusts and white to greens, yellows, blues, reds the whole riot.<\/p>\n
What is it?\u00a0 In its fullest realization this revolution would see each person responsible for at least some of their own food, food they grow or catch or kill.\u00a0 In its fullest realization each person would use whatever land they share with the future in such a way as to increase its natural capital, using the land in such a way that it improves with age and gains in its capacity to support human, animal and plant life.<\/p>\n
What is it?\u00a0 In its fullest realization this revolution would find each person closer, much closer to the source of their electricity, their transportation and its fuel, their work and their family.\u00a0 In its fullest realization this revolution would shut down the coal-fired generating plants, shutter the nuclear generating plants and have maximum and optimum use of wind, geothermal, hydro, solar and biomass generation. In its fullest realization each person would eat food that had traveled only short distances to their table, the shorter the better, the best being from backyard or front yard garden to the table.<\/p>\n
What is it?\u00a0 Well, we have a ways to go yet.\u00a0 Perhaps a long ways, but if we want our descendants to have a chance to enjoy the same wonders in this land that we have known, we will have to change.\u00a0 We will have to change radically.\u00a0 We need, as I suggested, another American revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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