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As high-technology agriculture becomes more wasteful and expensive, more farmers are being forced off the land or into bankruptcy. Jackson's major solution calls for the development of plant combinations that yield food while holding the soil and re-newing its nutrients without plowing or applying fossil-fuel-based fertilizers or pesticides. 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For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—and yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable future. Longstanding assumptions about economic growth and technological progress—the dream of a future of endless bounty—are no longer tenable. The climate crisis has already progressed beyond simple or nondisruptive solutions. The end result will be apocalyptic; the only question now is how bad it will be.   Jackson and Jensen examine how geographic determinism shaped our past and led to today’s social injustice, consumerist culture, and high-energy\/high-technology dystopias. The solution requires addressing today’s systemic failures and confronting human nature by recognizing the limits of our ability to predict how those failures will play out over time. Though these massive challenges can feel overwhelming, Jackson and Jensen weave a secular reading of theological concepts—the prophetic, the apocalyptic, a saving remnant, and grace—to chart a collective, realistic path for humanity not only to survive our apocalypse but also to emerge on the other side with a renewed appreciation of the larger living world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746554323217,"sku":"NGR9780268203665","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49990920667409,"sku":"CIN0268203660G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000578867473,"sku":"NIN9780268203665","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51397548474641,"sku":"GOR012559085","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423321227537,"sku":"CIN0268203660VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52483371335953,"sku":"NLS9780268203665","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0268203660.jpg?v=1761390978"},{"product_id":"becoming-native-to-this-place-book-wes-jackson-9781887178112","title":"Becoming Native to This Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e The New World -- this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth -- was to represent a new beginning for civilized humanity. Unfortunately, even the best of the European settlers had a stronger eye for conquest than for justice. Natives were in the way -- surplus people who must be literally displaced. Now, as ecologist West Jackson points out, descendants of those early beneficiaries of conquest find themselves the displaced persons, forced to vacate the family farmsteads and small towns of our heartland, leaving vacant the schools, churches, hardware stores, and barber shops. In a ringing cry for a changed relation to the land, Jackson urges modern Americans to become truly native to this place -- to base our culture and agriculture on nature's principles, to recycle as natural ecosystems have for millions of years. The task is more difficult now, he argues, because so much cultural information has been lost and because the ecological capital necessary to grow food in a sustainable way has been seriously eroded. Where to begin? Jackson suggests we start with those thousands of small towns and rural communities literally falling down or apart. We have no money to pay for the process and little cultural awareness to support it, but here are the places where a new generation of homecomers -- people who want to go to a place and dig in -- can become the new pioneers, operating on a set of assumptions and aspirations different from those of their ancestors. These new pioneers will have to set up the books for ecological community accounting. If they dig deep enough and long enough, urges Jackson, a new kind of economy will emerge. 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We have no money to pay for the process and little cultural awareness to support it, but here are the places where a new generation of homecomers -- people who want to go to a place and dig in -- can become the new pioneers, operating on a set of assumptions and aspirations different from those of their ancestors. These new pioneers will have to \"set up the books\" for ecological community accounting. IF they dig deep enough and long enough, urges Jackson, a new kind of economy will emerge. 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Examining the relationship between the land and the future generations who will depend on it, they propose that, while we cannot improve upon nature, by putting this new perspective to work in our professional and personal lives we can live sustainably on Earth.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138897056017,"sku":"CIN0813192587G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008156107025,"sku":"NIN9780813192581","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813192587.jpg?v=1750745340"},{"product_id":"wagon-roads-west-book-wes-jackson-9780803294028","title":"Wagon Roads West","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50186672341265,"sku":"CIN0803294026G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803294026.jpg?v=1751395645"},{"product_id":"nature-as-measure-book-wes-jackson-9781582437002","title":"Nature as Measure","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Wes Jackson, \"a well-known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his convictions into captivating prose . . . Jackson's thoughts are still as significant and profound as they were nearly 20 years ago\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) and can teach us many things about the land, soil, and conservation, but what most resonates is this- The ecosphere is self-regulating, and as often as we attempt to understand it, we are not its builders, and our manuals will often be faulty. The only responsible way to learn the nuances of the land is to study the soil and vegetation in their natural state and pass this knowledge on to future generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \" A small book rich in ideas\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review), \u003ci\u003eNature as Measure\u003c\/i\u003e collects Jackson's essays from \u003ci\u003eAltars of Unhewn Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBecoming Native to This Place\u003c\/i\u003e, presenting ideas of land conservation and education that are written from the point of view of a man who has practiced what he's preached and proven that it is possible to partially restore much of the land that we've ravaged. Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy, grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His longtime friend Wendell Berry provides an informative, contextual Introduction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"For those concerned about what will be left and how many billion will be starving in twenty years, this is a must read.\" -Register of the Kentucky Historical Society\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A good introduction to a thinker whose ideas on agriculture are radical both in their technical approach to food production as well as in terms of the economic, social, and cultural context within which it is practiced.\" -Review of Radical Political Economics","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50283613225233,"sku":"CIN1582437009G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50973400170769,"sku":"GOR014154061","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323449966865,"sku":"CIN1582437009VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1582437009.jpg?v=1750798767"},{"product_id":"hogs-are-up-book-wes-jackson-9780700630592","title":"Hogs Are Up","description":"Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions reveals what makes Wes Jackson tick. 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He was born into a culture of crop diversity where animals and people were out in the fields and around. He saw the tractor arrive and the horses leave. After you read Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions you may share his misgivings about what conventional thinkers see as 'progress.'  Jackson is constantly exploring the world around him and will engage anyone who can help him think about a discovery, an experiment, or recent insight. Jackson believes that our insights must go beyond the latest scholarly study and government report if we are to get the necessary interest for people to change. The stories and digressions he shares in Hogs Are Up are the fruit of a longtime effort to lay the agricultural and cultural foundation for a new worldview grounded in nature's principles and located in rural communities able to survive through a new relationship of humanity to the ecosphere.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50291376849169,"sku":"CIN0700630597G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006192124177,"sku":"NIN9780700630592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0700630597.jpg?v=1763477710"},{"product_id":"meeting-the-expectations-of-the-land-book-wes-jackson-9780865471726","title":"Meeting the Expectations of the Land","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364566208785,"sku":"CIN086547172XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/086547172X.jpg?v=1750746887"},{"product_id":"ten-years-fresh-the-story-of-the-brooklyn-hip-hop-festival-book-wes-jackson-9781312331693","title":"Ten Years Fresh: the Story of the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival","description":"'Ten Years Fresh gives you a peak behind the scenes of NYC's largest Hip-Hop cultural event, The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. 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