Leif Halverson
10/24/2019 1:24 PM
It is only relatively recently (12k years) that our species shifted to an agrarian system as the primary means of food production. Harari's Sapiens gives a fairly critical review of what that shift entailed for all of us humans. And these general implications have only been further compounded by the more modern shift from agriculture proper to agribusiness. Interestingly enough, the populations of people in northern MN that seek to turn back the clock by way of food sovereignty have an opportunity to actually do so given their apparent (from the video) access to wilderness. The domestic inhabitants of typical American suburbia have less access and thus less actual ability to reclaim food sovereignty in a massively measurable way. Returning to Sapiens, it is genetically impossible to reverse the First Revolution - The Cognitive Revolution. Sci-Fi has often toyed with the notion that the Third Revolution - The Scientific Revolution could be wiped out by a global catastrophe - human made or otherwise. But what of the Second Revolution - The Agricultural Revolution? Do we have an option to undo that one? At what cost?