Back to the land

John Brown argues for the benefits of a return to the land

Back to the land | Photo: Photo: Stewart Black / flickr CC.

Someone from the Chinese Falun Gong movement recently passed me a free copy of a Chinese paper, The Epoch Times.  I was interested in a headline: ‘Depression Set to Be Top Global Disease by 2030’. The headline fits in with an opinion I have held for a long time – that an agrarian lifestyle is healthy. Not only will it persuade lots more people to stop making machines that can do the things that people used to do – it is also good for them.

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