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"many of the military officers are fairly progressive in knowing that might based on fossil fuels, arms, and economic sanctions just wont work. They also look at our country and see waste, flab, unsustainable practices, falling down infrastructure, uneducated people with bad health, and worst of all bad food. Poor America is slipping with respect to nearly all measures of sustainability and on many metrics are at the bottom of the OECD ranking of 31 countries. We used to be sustainable and Number 1 in nearly all categories.
One has to start somewhere, and it is far easier to "fix"…
"many of the military officers are fairly progressive in knowing that might based on fossil fuels, arms, and economic sanctions just wont work. They also look at our country and see waste, flab, unsustainable practices, falling down infrastructure, uneducated people with bad health, and worst of all bad food. Poor America is slipping with respect to nearly all measures of sustainability and on many metrics are at the bottom of the OECD ranking of 31 countries. We used to be sustainable and Number 1 in nearly all categories.
One has to start somewhere, and it is far easier to "fix" a small community in the Mid-West rather than the trillions it would take to repair what infrastructure and resources we have today in the entire USA. These military folks have a rather direct "git-r-done" attitude that is easily accepted while being infectious, direct, appealing, and convincing. They don't get into political fights like "Big Ag is bad" but rather ask questions like "do you guys grow any honest food you can eat around here?" They don't say we should bust up gigantic global corporations because they're screwing the US if not the entire globe ... they go git-r-done little by little, like reconstructing a foreign country such as Iraq or Afghanistan ... which unfortunately wasn't sustainable because we have worse problems here at home.
Yes, to many military officers who have studied such things, our country is in shambles not unlike such tore-up countries in many respects. I've heard this from time to time such as from "climate change hawks" that perhaps we need a military-like approach to fixing our country. It's a little different than how climate hawks view the situation, but the outcome is pretty much he same thing. "
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Apologies for the use of the word grand strategy; iz an academic red herring.
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May be that permaculture is co-opted by army before anyone in 1st world puts into wide use. Hard to say this could be bad, modifying modern cultural moors can only be good, yes?
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