Changing Course for Life by Sir Julian Rose

Changing Course for Life : Local Solutions to Global Problems By Sir Julian Rose New European Publications
“Continuously accepting ever more restrictive clamps upon our civil liberties and human aspirations ultimately weakens and confuses us, making us cannon fodder for all the consuming appetites of corporate pirates and political apologists. There is nothing more important to do now than to take the authority to control our lives out of such people’s hands, and to pour our energies into securing a resurgent future for largely self-governing human scale communities throughout the world.” So writes Sir Julian Rose, who urges his readers to reconnect with farmers, the land and small-scale communities, and what better way to start than by obtaining our food from farmers and artisans. In this way we help build a just economic system, “one which establishes the best means for as many people as possible to realize their potential, and helps to build the shared goal or ideal of a caring society.” Reductionist science, agricultural policy, environmental destruction, the role of the arts, modern medicine, and the trend to globalization are some of the themes Rose illuminates with his insight in this excellent little book. Says Rose, “All infrastructure should serve the purpose of helping humanity—and nature—to reach a healthier, more subtle and more dynamic state of self realisation.” That’s a goal we can all eat for! New European Publications. THUMBS UP.   This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Winter 2010.