Flagship proposition:
Get the planet repaired for you

Think of your house. If the roof is leaking or there’s a crack in the wall, you get it repaired, right?

Your home, the planet, needs repairing. You probably know what will happen if it doesn’t get fixed in time. How about getting it repaired?

This is a kickstarter of sorts to launch a service to repair your home, the planet, for you

Hi, I’m Eva, a fellow citizen like you.

Like most everyone, I notice the climate changing and worry about what’s to come. I’m not too keen on facing price increases, more extreme weather, infrastructure damage, failed harvests, lack of water, animals going extinct, forced migration, possibly war, and so on.

For a good while now, I’ve been aware that the kind of farming that brings back life to grow food and materials can fix the climate

Imagine when walking in a farm it feels more like you’re in a forest or a meadow. It’s this kind of wild nature-like farming that can repair the planet. Syntropic farming, food forests, agroecology, regenerative organic farming, permaculture, holistic management, wild farming, and natural farming all bring back life to produce what we need.

Farming can, according to the international initiative 4 per 1000, store enough carbon each year to stop the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Farming that brings back life fixes a whole lot of other things too like biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and agrochemical pollution. And by the way, it also gives you the tastiest, most nutritious food and it better secures your supplies of food and water. It’s pretty awesome all around.

We might feel that shifting farming is up to the public sector, the EU, farmers, investors, food companies

That someone else should take care of repairing the planet

Maybe

But the fact of the matter is, that if it doesn’t happen fast enough, it has consequences for you and me both

And everyone else alive today and in the future

If you know the ins and outs of farming and the food sector, you see why it’s not moving as fast as it should. Essentially, this kind of farming is more complex with many different species. This requires extensive knowledge and experience as well as more sophisticated logistics and sales. So we’re asking farmers with a full time job to immensely complexify what they do, and for minimal earnings at that. Only pioneering supermen will do this. The setup for farmers is already undesirable to say the least, as underscored by their massive demonstrations and their high suicide rates. If we want land management to change, farming should no longer be a one-man show. 

You can get a better sense of the farming World by checking out the Opening series: Why is farming what I pay special attention to? [to be completed shortly] in the Notes section of this website.

So I propose the next logical step forward

To introduce this, let me ask, how does society usually provide something benefiting everyone? That’s right, we pool funds to pay for it.

For building and maintaining roads, for example, the services of construction teams are engaged with pooled money from taxes. In many countries, social security and healthcare services are also paid for by pooled money from everyone.

But social security didn’t always exist and the story of how it came to be can guide us. The roots of France’s social security system can be traced back to grassroots community organizations called mutual aid societies, sociétés de secours mutuel, with members collectively pooling contributions to fund benefits for those facing hardship. Over time, as the movement grew, the government provided subsidies to support them. And now social security in France is a given.

We can choose to do something to get ourselves to safety. We can follow the example of so many courageous people of the past who’ve written history and created what we enjoy today.

As I see it, the most simple and direct way to make sure that farming shifts, hectare by hectare, is to employ people to do it

Just like we do for building roads

If we pool funds, it’s possible to set up a planet repair service. A new generation of growers can be trained and employed to build and maintain more wild nature-like conditions on agricultural land while making sure that we have a robust supply of food and materials. They can step in where farmers retire with no successor, a common event these days.

The growers will not spend time harvesting and selling. Their service has great value in and of itself, independently of the sale of food and materials. Others, preferably local entrepreneurs, can harvest and market the goods much like how it already works sometimes in the wine sector: a farmer grows grapes and a wine producer harvests, processes, and markets. This setup can integrate seamlessly into the current food sector.

While directly employing people to make the change at the scale needed is expensive, it’s a bargain compared to the financial and emotional cost of not doing it.

And in essence, do we prefer that our money goes towards continuously fixing the damages of planetary issues as it already does today or towards deploying a readily available cure?

Rather than being at the mercy of the (in)actions of others and hoping for the best, we can master our own future

Let’s pool funds to get the planet repaired for us

If this speaks to you and you welcome the opportunity to make things move, independently of everything else, leave your name, e-mail, and location in the form at the bottom of the page.

The more people join the more can be done. So feel free to share this page to invite people around you to join too.

By the way, do reach out to me on hello@good-place.org with any thoughts, questions, or ideas you might have.