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    robert.m.kirchner
    Feb 04, 2021

    Thoughts on 'First We Eat'

    in Shabbat of the Earth

    If we agree that economic relocalization is important and desirable, including relocalization of food, there are several approaches that can be taken. This film illustrates an all-or-nothing approach for a limited period of time, an experiment to see how difficult it is. What concerns me about this approach is that many people will see the film and think, 'Yecch: blood, mud, and moose nose! I'm never going to be able to live like that. Forget local food.' I think it would be more inspiring and constructive to see if a family could live on say 60% local food on a long-term basis. Could they take it up to 80% local without serious experience of deprivation? How hard would it be to expand beyond food, to clothing and other consumer goods?

    I liked when the mother (Suzanne?) raised the issue of public subsidies for long-haul transportation infrastructure rather than an infrastructure for local self-sufficiency. Indeed, our non-local distribution system is a creature of public subsidies and legal protections that favour big business, as I argue in my 'What is Capitalism?' article.

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