tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post8809319334328856222..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: Battling the SwooshtikaJohn Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-73355772497401622152007-11-08T23:58:00.000-06:002007-11-08T23:58:00.000-06:00I should say future distributist societies should ...I should say future distributist societies should seek an ideal environmental footprint, not "minimal."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-22580805289154652142007-11-08T23:41:00.000-06:002007-11-08T23:41:00.000-06:00It's funny, I hear men of the West dream of the co...It's funny, I hear men of the West dream of the coming fossil fuel scarcity and resulting implosion of the global economy, yet such localised societies could be developed right now.<BR/><BR/>Environmentalism is truly an issue of the right. Immigration can be eliminated out of concern for the environment as well as trade reduced (not only foreign for domestic as well - replace the income tax with tariffs?), fossil fuel consumption heavily taxed, and also the usual agrarian concerns of overdevelopment and local pollution.<BR/><BR/>Future distributist societies ought to strive for a minimal environmental footprint, altering only what is necessary and clearly an improvement.<BR/><BR/>Nature is the work of God and ought to be appreciated as well. Part of the Agrarian desire for a return to the farm and for the Distributist desire for a return of the peasantry or at least of the vegetable garden is not only that the chance and the dealing with something far larger, even incomprehensible, brings one to ask for supernatural help but also the working with what was made by the hand of God and not the hand of man fans the flame of faith. In other words, working away on an incomprehensibly complex machine, occasionally relying upon chance, or with a bioengineering crop will not bring about the same degree of awe, wonder, and devotion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com