Ha! It’s like you are reading my mind! My intent was to keep the movement, The Saners, as simple and focused as possible. I simply wanted to stave off climate collapse so our children could inherit a habitable Earth. But, as you point out, our modern ways of agriculture are destroying the soil, and this too is deadly for the biosphere and all life on Earth. So, I had to ADD that. The problem is, the more complicated it becomes, the harder it is to explain what The Saners is about.
Unfortunately, the circumstances require that agriculture/pesticides and other issues (turns out at least some version of vegetarianism is necessary) MUST be a part of keeping the planet habitable.
George Monbiot in his recent book called Regenesis explains it pretty well for a non-expert like myself.
Oh, yeah. The Saners don’t take specific positions on HOW to address the crisis. We look for actual experts—scientists who understand climate and biology and all those related issues—and want to organize them to come up with a plan that takes science fully into account. And The Saners will work to make sure that the plan is carried out to protect the climate, the soil, and the biosphere we all depend on.
As you can imagine, this is HARD and I’m just an ordinary concerned citizen. BUT, I have the history and expertise of movements of the past—some of which were very, very successful. I’m hoping my judgement, and the judgement of our group will be good enough to recognize and use the right lessons from history. And that we pick sincere and capable scientists and other experts to assist us.
In our favor? Literally billions of people want to protect their children, pretty much more than anything else. More than making a quick buck or getting famous. I believe that, although this is a small movement, the latent body of supporters may be in the billions—and our objective is to trigger that latent movement at full strength.
Just FYI - my favorite people (and resource) who explain about how successful movements work are former founders of Otpor, essentially Serbian college students who overthrew the dictator Milosevic, and ensured that the country would have an elective representative government. They succeeded, and although the Serbian government isn’t perfect, it’s a hell of a lot better than a brutal dictator.
Anyway, they have a group and a website that shares the lessons they’ve learned—what works and what doesn’t and why. It’s called Canvasopedia.
BTW — I’m gonna follow you because you are an interesting guy!
