I'm a little late in catching up with your "new" Substack, somehow missing the transition. Which means I missed your news on the new book (last year), congrats! So, forgive me if I'm asking a question that has already been covered. But, will The Living be translated and issued into English?
And, good for you for tackling the reconstruction of the old barn. I've watched too many old barns collapse slowly from neglect. And then, too many non-farming incomers into our valley merely see barns as impediments to their putting greens.
Brian, Thanks for the ecouragement. Our publisher has an agent that is supposed to market our book, i.e. find publishers, but I see no activity of any kind from the agent. s/he never contacted us. So no, the Living and the Planet of the cows are still waiting for translation and publishing in English, and hopefully also some other languages.I don't want to brag tooooo much but the Living got very good and many reviews both from mainstream media and more alternative media. If you happen to be well connected in publishing ....
Alas, my connection with the book industry was on the retail side. Maybe touch base with Chris Smaje? Perhaps his work with Chelsea Green press as his publisher might yield some ideas and assistance. Their publishing efforts seem to overlap with your work. My book was published with Front Porch Republic. Great folks to work with. But on a very limited budget and staff. So, assistance with a translation would be beyond their scope, I would imagine.
it is gratifying to find the information you've provided here. it fills in blanks and confirms for me that the holes i've seen in the models and opinions i know are real holes... glad to see them broached and explored... now i can say a little more than ' what about this?' ' that doesn't make sense to me' or' why isn't anyone talking about *this * part of the process - the bits that are behind the oversimplified stories told in most circles...
We live in a World with decreasing resources. But we believe in infinite growth. That technology somehow will solve it for us.
When resources are getting scarce / expensive we start printing more money to allow us pump more oil and make more stuff so we can continue our wasteful way of living. We reduced interest rate so credit expansion doesn't hurt so much.
But reality is catching up with us. We can not live so far above our means much longer. Today the financial economy is 40% larger than the real economy of goods and services. That means there is 40% more money created than there is use for. That creates a speculation bubble that is bound to crash. But it allows us so far to continue buy stuff and think everything is fine.
So credit expansion kick the can down the road a little longer. When there is no solution to the fact that we live in a World with finite resources, politicians will continue to borrow more and say we will solve it later. And hope it doesn't crash the next 4 years...
Previous empires / high cultures has lasted around 250 years until they crashed. Last was the Roman Empire. This carbon pulse started with the refinement of the steam engine by James Watt in 1760's that meant the start of fossil fuel use. Adam Smith wrote wealth of nations in 1776 regarded as the start of capitalism. We will increase the number of those moderately intelligent hairless apes to probably 10 billions only due to fossil energy until Gaia will reset them back to long-time sustainable levels again in the not so distant future.
And there is where your work on sustainable food production is so important. Hope this makes some sense...
Gunnar, if you haven't already been there I can recommend Tim Morgans blog about "the link between the monetary economy and the real material, biophysical, economy".
Thanks P-O, I do try to follow his posts, and have no problem with the prominent position he assign to energy and the cost of energy. I have more problems to understand how debt can drive economic growth as one persons debt is another persons asset, as well as his claim that there is a growing gap between "prosperity" and GDP. Those two are of course interlinked.....
Gunnar,
I'm a little late in catching up with your "new" Substack, somehow missing the transition. Which means I missed your news on the new book (last year), congrats! So, forgive me if I'm asking a question that has already been covered. But, will The Living be translated and issued into English?
And, good for you for tackling the reconstruction of the old barn. I've watched too many old barns collapse slowly from neglect. And then, too many non-farming incomers into our valley merely see barns as impediments to their putting greens.
cheers,
Brian
Brian, Thanks for the ecouragement. Our publisher has an agent that is supposed to market our book, i.e. find publishers, but I see no activity of any kind from the agent. s/he never contacted us. So no, the Living and the Planet of the cows are still waiting for translation and publishing in English, and hopefully also some other languages.I don't want to brag tooooo much but the Living got very good and many reviews both from mainstream media and more alternative media. If you happen to be well connected in publishing ....
Alas, my connection with the book industry was on the retail side. Maybe touch base with Chris Smaje? Perhaps his work with Chelsea Green press as his publisher might yield some ideas and assistance. Their publishing efforts seem to overlap with your work. My book was published with Front Porch Republic. Great folks to work with. But on a very limited budget and staff. So, assistance with a translation would be beyond their scope, I would imagine.
Cheers,
Brian
And, I really wish it would find an English publisher, if only for the selfish reason that I'd like to read it.
🩷kotube
it is gratifying to find the information you've provided here. it fills in blanks and confirms for me that the holes i've seen in the models and opinions i know are real holes... glad to see them broached and explored... now i can say a little more than ' what about this?' ' that doesn't make sense to me' or' why isn't anyone talking about *this * part of the process - the bits that are behind the oversimplified stories told in most circles...
thank you.
We live in a World with decreasing resources. But we believe in infinite growth. That technology somehow will solve it for us.
When resources are getting scarce / expensive we start printing more money to allow us pump more oil and make more stuff so we can continue our wasteful way of living. We reduced interest rate so credit expansion doesn't hurt so much.
But reality is catching up with us. We can not live so far above our means much longer. Today the financial economy is 40% larger than the real economy of goods and services. That means there is 40% more money created than there is use for. That creates a speculation bubble that is bound to crash. But it allows us so far to continue buy stuff and think everything is fine.
So credit expansion kick the can down the road a little longer. When there is no solution to the fact that we live in a World with finite resources, politicians will continue to borrow more and say we will solve it later. And hope it doesn't crash the next 4 years...
Previous empires / high cultures has lasted around 250 years until they crashed. Last was the Roman Empire. This carbon pulse started with the refinement of the steam engine by James Watt in 1760's that meant the start of fossil fuel use. Adam Smith wrote wealth of nations in 1776 regarded as the start of capitalism. We will increase the number of those moderately intelligent hairless apes to probably 10 billions only due to fossil energy until Gaia will reset them back to long-time sustainable levels again in the not so distant future.
And there is where your work on sustainable food production is so important. Hope this makes some sense...
Gunnar, if you haven't already been there I can recommend Tim Morgans blog about "the link between the monetary economy and the real material, biophysical, economy".
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/
Thanks P-O, I do try to follow his posts, and have no problem with the prominent position he assign to energy and the cost of energy. I have more problems to understand how debt can drive economic growth as one persons debt is another persons asset, as well as his claim that there is a growing gap between "prosperity" and GDP. Those two are of course interlinked.....