Sustaining ourselves revisisted

I happened through some old blog posts of mine and found this from 2005.

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"As we continue the long switch from industrial to knowledge, most of us couldn't create the things we consider critical to our everyday lives, so know we can't create our food or the tools to prepare it.

If we are beginning to give up knowledge, perhaps we are switching again, to what I haven't heard yet, or is this just simply that we are switching from knowledge to consumer, with everything on demand, all created by specialists.

So what I am left with is that in a matter of a few hundred years we have gone from self-sustaining to just existing and the only purpose being to consume all that is around us.

Somehow this doesn't seem like a great way to go."
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Since then I believe this trend has continued and has even sped up. I am glad to have seen some local food movements in the meantime.

Now that peak oil and other peaks are becoming more apparent to everyone I suspect that this change will become a much larger problem.

For my own efforts I have actually gone to cooking from scratch a very large portion of what we eat from regional sources. I even can make my own bread.

I have been thinking about some larger regional whole economy sustainability ideas further to this that I will expand here soon.