Consulting the Genius of the Place

An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

By: Wes Jackson

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Paperback | 4 October 2011

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Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, if one prefers, nature in general—as the measure against which we judge all of our agricultural practices.

Jackson believes the time is right to do away with annual monoculture grains, which are vulnerable to national security threats and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs. Soil erosion and the poisons polluting our water and air—all associated with agriculture from its beginnings—foretell a population with its natural fertility greatly destroyed.

In this eloquent and timely volume, Jackson argues we must look to nature itself to lead us out of the mess we’ve made. The natural ecosystems will tell us, if we listen, what should happen to the future of food.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Agriculture & Farming Sustainable Agriculture Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Sustainability Environmental Management Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays Environmentalist Thought & Ideology

Preface	p. ix
Some History And Assumption
Introduction	p. 3
One Man's Education	p. 19
Earth Is Alive	p. 64
The 3.45-Billion-Year-Old Imperative and the Five Pools	p. 73
The Rise of Technological Fundamentalism	p. 85
losses
The Most Serious Loss of All	p. 100
Chemicals on the Landscape	p. 131
The Loss of Cultural Capacity	p. 135
Global Warming: How a Little Change Can Mean a Lot	p. 140
Reversing The Damage
Consulting the Genius	p. 146
A 50-Year Farm Bill Proposal Goes to Washington	p. 177
An Appeal to the Russians	p. 188
Were Ants the First Agriculturists?	p. 201
Analyzing The Resistance
Analyzing the Resistance	p. 208
Away From The Extractive Economy
Away From the Extractive Economy	p. 218
An Enigma
Thoughts on the Natural History of Eden	p. 238
Coda	p. 243
Acknowledgments	p. 250
References and Notes	p. 254
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