all of our ships will come in, he said

& she, but we hope ours has bread on it
freedom from hunger, yuk yuk you mean
food for peace, no

I mean freedom from hunger, I
showed him, in red
where it read

freedom from hunger, & he

took my money
they always, take your money
whatever money you happen to have

for stamps, in this case
or for food, it should read
money for peace, or some other

freedom from money

unrelated non real (

would be too much to ask)
like why do people steal money when they’re hungry
why not food, what good is the situation
too much (I ain’t going to forget it)

but this is the way it’s been
they say, you say
(I still won’t forget it)
why not grow the I’m trying to
feed myself, the others, the children

we are all hungry,

if they ain’t careful
we will all turn cannibal,

abstract goals like GNP are pursued even if they ruin the environment
THERE CAN’T BE A REALLY HUMAN ECONOMICS WITHOUT THE CONSIDERATION
THAT PEOPLE’S LIVES ARE A FUNCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
this lack seems to occur in Russia the same way it does over here
they’re based on the industrial model of a machine which takes in raw material
and shoots a product out the other end
it’s basically a linear kind of orientation

ecological economics would consider that a healthy environment is the basic good
in other words, anything which makes a profit in the short-run but devastates the
environment is not desirable
that’s a very different orientation from, say, the present one where you have abstract
capital that goes around looking for opportunities to make money regardless of what
the consequences are going to be to that region
it’s pretty hard to think about the environment if you take the whole earth
it’s difficult to think about the whole earth because if you take a geographical
unit it has certain ecological similarities
if you consider the things that live there you have to consider it as a unit
you can’t when you think about wildlife conservation
it’s very misleading to think about individual animals because the health of the
species may depend on what’s happening to whole populations of animals
unless you can think of the population as supposed to be there, it’s hard to
tell what’s going on
an example for this would be what happened when the reindeer were brought into Alaska
they hybridized with the caribou which produced a very scrawny and poorly-adapted
hybrid
you know the caribou was really well adapted to that country
the reindeer had had some of its instincts bred out of it from long domestication
and the result was the deterioration of the caribou
yet the reindeer were brought in supposedly to improve the economy which they didn’t

somewhere there’s got to emerge an ecologically oriented culture
what this ecologically oriented culture will be is a kind of Renaissance of the
attitudes man had before he developed agriculture
a kind of intuitive harmony with the world
a really more conscious thing than that of modern man

you know right now we’re faced with a situation where the world population is
increasing enormously rapidly and a lot of people say that within ten or fifteen
years there’s going to be mass starvation on many continents and the current approaches
to this are to sort of increase the export of technological agriculture to the
whole world
in other words to form a world food corporation and get various countries to put in the
capital for this
what it’ll be is an attempt to take the major food producing areas of the world to
make them all sort of like the Imperial Valley which will have very profound consequences
for one thing it would mean the destruction of all the native land-based cultures
they would be inefficient in comparison
in other words it would force everybody into a certain mold
and also it would mean a tremendous acceleration in environmental pollution with
things like pesticides and artificial fertilizers which are already a big problem
these things are going to get into the ocean
they’re in the ocean right now and they’ll start playing hob with the ecology so
that the fisheries are liable to just fall right to the floor
there is good evidence now that it’s beginning to happen to the ocean
the pelican is becoming extinct as a breeding species along the coast
has already disappeared from the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida
now the pelicans no longer breed they’ve disappeared as breeding birds off much
of the California coast and now they’re beginning to disappear off the islands
off the coast of Mexico
this is happening right now
and the reason this is happening apparently is that the pelican as a bird is pretty
high up on the food chain and you get a certain amount of DDT in the ocean which is
picked up by the fish
little fish
big fish eat them and they concentrate more and the pelican is several steps up on
the food chain so he gets a really big dose and this prevents him from reproducing
the same thing that hits the pelican is going to be hitting the tuna and other large
fish
there’s research that recently has come out that a number of pesticides including
DDT prevent green algae from photosynthesizing sometimes by as much as fifty per
cent which means that the environmental pollution that’s been pouring into the ocean
has the potentiality of preventing the plant life in the ocean from making food
which means that you knock the food pyramid off right at the bottom and particularly
in terms of the Pacific Basin most of this area is highly dependent on the sea for food