Sustainability and Politics: How much food is minimum to feed a person? We could supply this

Friday, April 17, 2015

How much food is minimum to feed a person? We could supply this

Here This tangential to the article attached. Gwyneth Paltrow is trying to live on 'food stamps,' or really the equivalent which is like $29 dollars a day. Lots or criticism of course, but does create more conversation about this. (1) It looks every hard and sad, especially with children to feed on this amount too! Heartless that people want to reduce food stamp allotments. In our wealthy country supporting billion dollar wars it is unconscionable that a modern country would let a sizable population of it's own citizens starve or nearly starve so we could make bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, etc. (2) How much food is necessary for each person, protein and carbs and hopefully some vegetables and even sugar? I'm sure this is available on the web, and my instinct is that we could supply this for the population of hungry on the planet, by re-prioritizing expenses etc.

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.