[BCFSN] Correction dear food system friends, it's a Climate Food Emergency

Fri Mar 5 12:56:49 EST 2021

Good day.
If you haven’t seen this video from Charles Eisentein, I think you’ll find it worth watching. 
Trees, water and soil are the solutions to climate change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68ZHYzeZoI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68ZHYzeZoI>

Kind regards, Teresa

> On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:09 AM, Women's Food and Water Initiative <wfwi at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Correction dear food system friends, seed keepers, it's a Climate Food Emergency.
> 
> In 2019 Australia bought wheat from Canada for the first time in 40 years.
> The exponential curve is straightening, pointing up, now two years hence.
> What will harvests be like this year and next and so on?
> Our evolutionary experience has always had seasons. Our brains don't know how to 
> relate to the exponential curve of climate instability. 
>  
> Mirabel Think Tank has had many years to ponder the situation and how it is going to unfold.
> The tail of the fossil fuel dragon seemed to be swinging far right for a while, now back left, while the youth
> and their supportive parents continue to strike for a habitable planet, a FUTURE.
> 
> We want youth to know science and the more they learn the more they see what we have done to 
> Gaia and her loved ones. It's a time to grieve and to celebrate because now, regardless of the outcome,
> maybe she will send us a Hail Mary Pass if we change our attitudes, maybe NOT, but regardless,
> 
> now is the time to be our best selves. 
> 
> We figure for British Columbia and perhaps all of Canada, the most of us living in cities, we need to form 
> urban farming collectives and work in as large a group that can be easily managed.
> These are relationship-led farms and these teams of people can work to grow food and adapt to whatever comes,  together.
> . 
> Water will be the biggest challenge and there will be fights over it. Each urban farming collective  will
> have to have a Water Keeper Team of two or three people and their families. This is the most important job
> so all the members of the collective will be checking up on these folks, frequently, and helping out as needed.
> 
> Seed is a big concern. We have seen what has happened since Covid hit us. 
> Every UF collective will need Seed Keepers and these people will be highly regarded with
> the gift of collaboration coming their way from all the other collective members.
> 
> Nutritionists will be needed  to help us focus on the right foods for our our geographic areas. 
> Although, soon, geography will not make any difference. As the Arctic heats, and heads towards
> a Blue Ocean Event, the loss of the stability of the jet steam will make the swings wilder and wilder.
> At that point all bets are off for the future of humanity and all the oxygen breathers.
> 
> Now is the time for a spirituality that keeps us from despair.
> For me it's Gaia, the living, breathing, feeling synergy of our home planet Earth.
> She is a loving mother and she is not happy with her human species because they abused their power
> allowing their "faith" to give them permission to do it.
> 
> But she knows all about us and our limitations. Maybe we will evolve into something better or maybe 
> our species is doomed by it's own super-fascination with mortality, who knows?
> 
> Either way how we continue form here on is entirely up to us. 
> 
> Our governments are about 15 years behind reality, and will not, though they will try their best, catch up.
> There is a growing global movement for the Basic Livable Income and that is a good sign.
> 
> Money had no particular value before all this (fractional reserve lending gone mad) and now we see with the crypto currencies 
> it is simply a few zeros and ones in the cloud. Food and water will be what matters and how to nourish humans
> in a dignified manner.
> 
> Like land reform in many nations, reorganizing ourselves into urban and rural farming collectives can only lead to more social justice,
> that is until the food runs out.
> 
> At Mirabel we remain open to surprises, good things can come out of this kind of pressure humanity is under.
> We seem to perform well under a lot of self-created stress. Let's see if this is one of those times.
> 
> Thinking of all of you. Sending you peace and clarity of mind in our prayers.
> 
> Jen and Stephen Fisher-Bradley
> Women's Food and Water Initiative
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> From: "Andre Piver" <andrepiver at shaw.ca>
> To: "Abra Brynne" <abrabrynne at gmail.com>
> Cc: "food" <food at bcfsn.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:28:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [BCFSN] Fwd: Breaking news: Minister Bibeau announces members of the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council
> 
> I sincerely hope that this emergence represents the connection with the Climate Emergency we face being recognized beyond lip-service.
> 
> 
> Andre C. Piver MD
> 6774 Harrop Procter Rd.
> Nelson, B.C., V1L 6R2
> Canada , tel 250.229 4665
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> On Feb 19, 2021, at 12:05 PM, Abra Brynne <abrabrynne at gmail.com <mailto:abrabrynne at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> FYI. Please see below.
> in good food,
> Abra
> 
> Abra Brynne
> abra at foodshed.ca <mailto:abra at foodshed.ca>
> 604 Gore Street West, Nelson, BC V1L 3H3
> Ph: 250.777.2480
> she | her 
> 
> "Whoever suggested that good thinking should be in a straight line?" Brewster Kneen
> 
> "Social justice does  not come from passivity or non-caring. Justice must be struggled for. That is what life is, or should be all about - striving for justice. Not only or primarily as individuals, but as members of larger communities." Ursula Franklin
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Margaret Bancerz <mbancerz at ryerson.ca <mailto:mbancerz at ryerson.ca>>
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 10:10
> Subject: Breaking news: Minister Bibeau announces members of the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council
> To: cafs <cafs at ryerson.ca <mailto:cafs at ryerson.ca>>
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This just came through my email: the long awaited Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council. Congratulations to our CAFS members on the Council! 
> Please see the link <https://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/about-our-department/key-departmental-initiatives/food-policy/the-canadian-food-policy-advisory-council/?id=1597863853544>.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> Margaret Bancerz, PhD
> Ryerson University
> Lecturer
> 
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