# Review: Pastoral Song ## Review Date #note/sourcereview/article | #note/sourcereview/book ## What is the thesis? The evolution of farming has been short sighted and fragile, focusing on this year's yields and not care for the farmers, their communities, the soil, or the long term health of the land or our species. . ## Am I convinced and why? Yes, this is similar to how other industries have evolved. ## Summarize the argument ## What is the other side of the argument? Progress is going to happen, use your [[Wu Wei]] to properly [[Identifying Reality]] and learn to coexist with the real state of the world. ## What else do I wonder about? - How to incorporate more permaculture into our home growing ## Action - Stop ordering from Amazon when possible. Stop using industrial fertilizer. ## Quotes: **“The economists are wrong. Farming is a business unlike any other because, crucially, it takes place in a natural setting and affects the natural world directly and profoundly.”** **“And in place of an old patchwork landscape full of working people, diverse farm animals, and crops, with lots of farmland wildlife, a blander, barer, simpler, denatured, and unpeopled landscape had emerged.** **The scandal isn’t what’s illegal**  **The scandal is what is legal, not what is illegal** Michael Kingsley ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/sustainability | #on/environmental | #on/farming | #on/community | #on/progress | #on/work ## Source: Rebanks, J. (2021). _Pastoral song: A farmer’s journey_ (First U.S. edition). Custom House.