Beyond rescue ecomodernism: the case for agrarian localism restated | Small Farm Future
Our modern culture is good at heroic, high-tech mitigation of specific and immediate acute problems. It’s not very good at long-term, low-tech cultural adaptation that mitigates against these specific and immediate acute problems from arising.
Is there time? Best to assume that there is, and start the transition now.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Slow Travel
Oh, to be able to travel by Zeppelin. Meanwhile, I think the idea of never flying anywhere for less than a week is a good stop-gap, and more trains when possible.
Meanwhile
Lady Eva seems to have given up on Odessa. Sara left Odessa, now anchored at Bandirma, TR, cargo unknown (by me). Jasmin Queen and Noran loitering at anchor south of Istanbul, maybe still en route to Odessa or Chornomorsk.
New in Odessa: Ali S, Ganosaya, Zhe Hai
You go away for a few days and ... nothing much changes.
Razoni could be anywhere, not reporting position. Navi Star got to Foynes an hour or so ago. Polarnet still anchored off Pendik, TR. Rojen left Italy, currently anchored off Cephalonia. Riva Wind still at Iskenderun.
Razoni, Polarnet, Rojen no change. Navi Star off the southern corner of Portugal. Riva Wind moored near Iskenderun.
No change in Odessa; six cargo ships in port (and one expected later today)
Razoni still not updating her position.
Navi Star through Gibraltar to Foynes. Ireland.
Polarnet still anchored.
Rojen still in Ravenna
Riva Wind entering Gulf of Alexandretta.
Sara joins 5 other cargo ships in Odessa.
On a related note, tracking the vessels is easy enough. How I can find out more about the cargo, what is loaded and unloaded and all that?
#shipping #bulk-cargo #commodities
Razoni is on the move, possibly to Egypt, but not updating her position.
Navi Star in the Eastern Med, heading to Foynes, Ireland.
Polarnet steaming to anchorage south of Istanbul.
Rojen moored in Ravenna,
Riva Wind expected in Iskenderun in a day or so.
Currently reading: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst, ISBN: 9780375760006
Riva Wind nearing Athens, Rojen passing Puglia on the way to Ravenna, Nav Star about to pass Sicily.
Razoni and Polarnet have not moved.
No change in the bulk carriers in Odessa.
Odd. The buyer of the Razoni's wheat cargo has refused to accept it, “citing a more than five-month delay”.
Polarnet still moored, Riva Wind still at anchor, Rojen passing Athens.
No further departures I can see.
New issue of Eat This Newsletter out now, with raw material provided by @kitchenbee @historicuk @minimaxir and a minor kerfuffle in the august pages of @PNASNews.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-185-heat/ and feel free to subscribe, for free.
Razoni still at anchor. Navi Star at anchor in Istanbul. Polarnet tied up in the Gulf of Izmit. Rojen on its way through the Marmara Sea. Riva Wind heading for the Bosporus queue.
Doesn't look like there have been any further departures from Odessa.
Time's the revelator
Many good thoughts and conclusions.
Riva Wind left Odessa this morning for Istanbul. No word yet what it is carrying.
Navi Star, Polarnet and Rojen all in the queue for the Bosporus.
Razoni at anchor near the Turkey/Syria border.
Biggest mistake I ever made was starting a "free trial" of @RealVNC because now my original Home VNC Viewer no longer works and I cannot find a way to revert.
Not surprised that only 25% of people found this useful https://help.realvnc.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003474552#on-the-device-you-want-to-control-from-0-4
@SheilaDillon It could never be simple, not if you want to cover the externalities of both products in adequate detail.
@bonjouryannick You might want to look at https://indieweb.org/Micropub which has a few examples, libraries etc that you can modify or, depending on your system, adopt directly.
Latest issue of Eat This Newsletter is about to drop, racing through the backlog so normal service can be restored ASAP. There's hops, heritage grains and climate change, plus agricultural policy in South Africa and the US.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-184-catching-up-with-reality/
Consider subscribing.
@decarola Devo trovare l’ora dell’ultimo treno a Roma, ma sicuro m’interessa.
City of the dead, part two
“... (a symptom of the malaise: the spellchecker on my computer is happy with the word ‘urbanization’ but not ‘ruralization’).”
When, I wonder, are we going to get to the art/culture arguments in favour of cities. Those are what have kept me urbanised for the past many years. Irrationally, perhaps, but the result is the same.
Slightly puzzled by Epilogue for MB for those of us who do not have a paid account. Does it feed my timeline, eventually? If it does, I might consider PESOS rather than indiebookclub and POSSE. Also, two way traffic, to open someone’s link in MB would encourage conversation.
Finished reading: Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane, ISBN: 9780393358094
Currently reading: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, ISBN: 9780143037071
From regenesis to re-exodus: of George Monbiot, mathematical modernism and the case for agrarian localism
George Monbiot illuminates and infuriates in equal measure, although I suspect, after reading Chris Smaje’s review, that I will not be paying much attention in future. I have not read Regenesis, so will say nothing about it myself. Two quotes from Chris (of many others I could have chosen):
“[A]n alternative, perhaps counterintuitive but more plausible argument [is] that low food prices in fact are a fundamental cause of global poverty.”
“[T]here’s no such thing as ‘an inexorable economic logic’, there are just political games with winners and losers – a point the old George Monbiot once understood.”
Yup.
"You begin the book a sober reader, calmly appreciating the complexity of historical causation, and you finish it a raving wheat monomaniac."
Glad to know I am not alone. Fine review of @nelsonhist's book in the NYRB
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/wielding-wheat-oceans-of-grain-nelson/
The tragedy of the climate commons and one way I tried to fight it | Small Farm Future
Interesting account of a single piece of civil disobedience and its aftermath.
Thank YOU @nelsonhist for doing the work and being happy to talk about it. Today, Grain and Empire closes the trilogy, leaving a lot still unsaid. Oceans of Grain is a terrific read that sheds light on so many disparate topics, all connected by wheat.
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Splendid piece by a splendid broadcaster. Only one thing to push back against:
Music helps. Sound beds help. Clear simple writing helps.
Clear writing, obviously. But music and sound beds? This is much more culturally determined, in my view, and I don't know how best to cope with it.
I see Jason using what looks like the AT 875 short shotgun mic as his desktop mic, possibly for podcasting and conferencing, and wonder how that compares to a less directional mic like my Electrovoice R50.
@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century -- without which there would be no global wheat trade. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-persephone/
@jblanca42 And finance. This week, @nelshist explains that wheat warehouses were the first banks, how the grain futures market emerged from the US Civil War and how Russia robbed the widows and orphans of France.
https://https://eatthispodcast.com/finance-grain
Next week, empire!
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