[BCFSN] UN Establishes New Global Standard in Bid to Tackle Food Loss, Waste

[Andre Piver]

The deeper divide is between the need for the illusion of predictability and control (denial of the human situation) which our 1st world retarded developmental environment supports and a more  emotionally mature view. This leads to the delusion of what Dave Pollard cals  Complicated systems (ones where things are controllable, predictable and the product of lovely  algorythms - aka the industrial paradigm - not really that different from the guaranteed formulae of saying the right prayers, going to confession or even the perfection of the "free market and innovation gonna fix everything" or most traditionally = Yang) and Complex systems - natural ones where things are messy, interconnected, unpredictable  (Yin) …..see http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-10-12/complexity-it%E2%80%99s-not-simple <http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-10-12/complexity-it%E2%80%99s-not-simple>


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Andre C. Piver MD
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> On Jun 24, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Jan Steinman <Jan at EcoReality.org> wrote:
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> OMG, 156 pages to tell us what “waste” is? What a waste!
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> I feel like the Supreme Court justice who, when asked what “pornography” was, said, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it!’"
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> “Modular Definitions of the Law,” “Diverse Quantification Options,” “Guidance: Valorization of FLW” — can anyone explain what this has to do with small farmers and food producers?
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> Joseph Tainter (“On the Collapse of Complex Societies”) claims that civilizations collapse when the effort and energy of maintaining their complexity uses up all available resources. I think we’re getting perilously close…
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> :::: Future historians will no doubt remark upon the inevitable association, with us, between sanitation and filthy lucre. And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons. -- Wendell Berry
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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