Fishermen Stop Fishing — Can't Afford Diesel, Food Crisis Begins
From Energy Lockdowns to the Technocratic Takeover of Food
Fishermen in Ireland and Thailand are grounding their boats because they can’t afford diesel. Half the world’s food comes from land that requires energy-hungry irrigation. Grain drying, cold storage, and refrigerated transport are all getting slammed. Meanwhile, the same technocrats who authored this crisis have poured billions into fake meat, lab-grown seafood, and alternative proteins--while quietly positioning themselves to control irrigation, drying, and storage through “smart” digital systems. This is how the takeover of food begins. Let’s talk about it...and what we can actually do about it.
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Thank you, Christian, for keeping us updated on the info that we don’t always see on the regular news.
If the industrial fish industry is flailing about due to its dependance on fragile centralized supply lines and high tech machines, its time we revitalize the low tech (regionally adaptable) regenerative ocean gardening and fish farming systems of pre-colonial peoples.
Ancient clam and oyster gardens once fed millions here in North America, and my Gaelic ancestors also had mussel and oyster gardens (created tidal pool habitat) that also provided nutrient dense sea vegetables like Dulse. Other ancient cultural examples abound globally. Eel farming in pre-colonial Australia, stone “octopus houses” in the Pacific Northwest, regeneratively farmed seaweed/kelp beds and carefully constructed salmon spawning habitat combined with regenerative agroforestry (further inland) enabled ancient indigenous mariculturalists, horticulturalists and regenerative ocean farmers to stack functions vertically.
Permaculture Design is all about taking advantage of and aligning our energy with that edge effect. If there is one place on earth where the most layers of productive ecological edges meet one another, it is the shore of the ocean.
Regenerative farming is a food production system that leaves the ecosystem that farm resides within more alive (biodiverse, resilient and beautiful) than it was before.
For thousands of years indigenous peoples have invented ingenious, often strikingly beautiful ways to manage, enrich and harvest food from marine habitat that, in combination with their belief systems (ethnoecological worldviews), not only prevented overharvesting, but actually increased biodiversity.
Many ancient indigenous peoples living on the coastlines used a combination of patience, careful observation, ingenuity and ecological literacy to actively re-shape the ecological niche habitats of ocean shorelines (both in tidal zones, on the shoreline and within forested coastal habitat) so that biodiversity is increased in a way that provides reliable and resilience food supply for humans, while also enriching ocean and soil ecology.
For more info and ideas check out my article on this subject below:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/regenerative-ocean-gardening-kelp