Humankind is at a fork in the road

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I wish I'd come across more of your writing over those years, then.

My own apples are starting to ripen, but they're scrawnier and more bug-infested than they should be. I wish my community supported your concept of 'disintermediation' by holding public classes in what used to be 'everyday skills' of our earlier ancestors, as well as the modern updates that have come along since. Teach us to do more for ourselves, to work to end our dependence upon imports from elsewhere. Heck, we've got a number of large parks in town, with generic trees. They could replace those with fruit trees, hire on some orchardist types to care for them, and distribute the food produced to the community in season, placing much of it with the local food pantries.