Tag Archives: Industrial Agriculture

Ways of Seeing II: The Mechanical View and the Treadmill of Techno-Fixes

Posted on September 21, 2015 by cjkperley

This is the second in a series.  I wanted to write about where we have come from in land use and conservation, what we are doing, and where we could be going: from Pre-modern (Pre-Industrial), To Modern (Industrial, or Productivist), to … Continue reading →

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Irrigation in New Zealand and yet more Propaganda

Posted on September 14, 2015 by cjkperley

The following was submitted to regional papers in response to an opinion piece written by Andrew Curtis from Irrigation NZ in early September 2015. Irrigation NZ’s Andrew Curtis’s comments (3rd Sept 2015) about land use and irrigation – as well … Continue reading →

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Ways of Seeing I: Paradigms of Progress – the Rise of the Machine

Posted on August 25, 2015 by cjkperley

Preamble.   This is the beginning of a series.  I wanted to write about where we have come from in land use and conservation, what we are doing, and where we could be going: from Pre-modern (Pre-Industrial), To Modern (Industrial, or … Continue reading →

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