With reporting by Gabriella, a loyal participant in the Sunday excursions to organize and loyal reader of the blog, I met on my way for the second time this book. The first time, even though I had just decided to read it I then went on to mind the second I caught the ball, I went to the library, I bought it and I read it in one breath.
Although the subtitle reveals that it is a natural introduction to agriculture, The revolution of straw of Masanobu Fukuoka is a book everyone should read and certainly should not be missing in the library of those working on environment, sustainability and preservation of natural ecosystems, environmental education. Because agriculture is natural (the real one) and its method of cultivation of the "don'ts" that is opposed to conventional farming today, even in the size of small peasant farm, takes on the characteristic of "industrial", is just one aspect Fukuoka, which deals with much larger than the live (real) harmony with nature, working with it and in return they receive everything you need to live. And not only, as is demonstrated by decades of his crops, agricultural production based on his principles was equivalent, if not more in some cases, production from intensive agriculture.
Humanity does not know the nature said Masanobu, because the world has become so specialized that it is impossible for people to grasp something in its entirety . Here then that the revolution can begin with this straw only that, in its simplicity holds immense power, to perpetuate life, the new generation through the establishment and the preservation of a natural balance when it returns to the ground, rather than subtracted, which has in turn generated.
Everything should be left to its natural course but not remaining there to watch us but by supporting and facilitating these processes and avoiding unnecessary actions (here the "non-doing"). Instead the damage humans do not fix the error, and when the negative results accumulate, work with all our energy to correct them. Then, when corrective actions appear to be successful, they come to regard these measures as splendid achievements. People always stubbornly insists to do so. This will come
then to a point where advanced techniques seem necessary because the natural balance was previously so upset because of those same techniques that the land has become that they can not do without them. He continues to completeness of vision and speech, saying that this logic applies not only to agriculture but also for other aspects of human society. Doctors and medicine become necessary when people create an environment ill. The institutional education and compulsory public school have no value in themselves but become necessary when humanity creates the conditions for which one must become "educated" to get by.
A text, then, that has more than 35 years but that touches issues which seem current, and in fact, as Larry Korn says in the introduction, the great contribution of Fukuoka is in having shown that the daily work of building a spiritual health can produce a practical and beneficial transformation of the world. thing, now more than ever, faced with the enormous environmental devastation which our civilization is concerned, we really needed.
In conclusion then, if the attitude towards nature (and therefore to ourselves, that we are an inseparable part of this) is not correct, although the remedies may be a potential harm and the words of Masanobu in this case are clear : the extent that people move away from nature, turns increasingly away from the center. At the same time says a centripetal reaction and an increasing desire to get back to nature. But if people are taken only by the reaction, moving left or right depending on the circumstances, the result is only more active. (...) I believe that the activities of "return to nature" and against the pollution, however laudable, do not move toward a real solution only if they are carried out reactions such as hyper-development of the present age.
One incentive to take responsibility for our every daily gesture.
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