Heroes for a Better World

Wes Jackson
(1936-)

American Biologist, Founder The Land Institute
2000 Right Livelihood Award Winner
World Future Council

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birthplace:
near Topeka, Kansas

QUOTES

"The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star."

If we don't get sustainability in agriculture first, sustainability will not happen."

"By beginning to make agriculture sustainable we will have taken the first step forward for humanity to begin to measure progress by its independence from the extractive economy."

“Ecosystem agriculturalists will take advantage of huge chunks of what works. They will be taking advantage of the natural integrities of ecosystems worked out over the millennia.”

We need to be saying, 'Listen folks, capitalism is inherently destructive.' How do we get from where we are to where we need to be... We have got to get rid of capitalism.

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring."

"...the 'natural systems' approach could be transferable worldwide, as long as adequate research is devoted to developing species and mixtures of species appropriate to specific environments. We believe that an agriculture is well within reach that is resilient, economical, ecologically responsible and socially just."

 


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