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In the biblical passage in Genesis, Adam and Eve's first child Cain and his brother Abel, respectively, offer their sacrifices for God. Abel was a shepherd, so he presented the firstborn sheep and suet; Cain was a farmer, he presented the "fruit of the ground as an offering." The results of God "Abel and his offering, but did not respect Cain and his offering." Cain angry face, God said to him:?? "Why are you angry yet If you do well, would not be accepted and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, his desire is for you, you have to Uniforms His. "(God is here used is very clever personification.) Cain did not hear the results into the word of God, he put his brother Abel brought the field, and killed him. God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said: (Well Cain, so too can answer such a choke) "? preservation of food I do not know, I my brother's keeper do," says the Lord : "What have you done thing your brother's blood, a voice crieth unto me from the ground?." God's wrath results, said: "Now preservation of food you will be cursed from the ground, you are farming, to no longer give you the effect You will be a restless wanderer on the earth. "Cain protested that such punishment is too heavy," Whenever I slay me. " To mend Cain, God responded Cain, who killed his certainty of retribution sevenfold. preservation of food But Cain has also been expelled since their parents do not work will be able to get food Eden, more tragic curse.
I have no reason not to ask readers to read the Bible text with my friends. If you did not read the Bible, one might think the relationship between God and his people, with a family member of another entanglement psychological complex; Even if you are a Christian, you may still (like me) feel that the punishment for such doubts: obviously two individual sacrifice to God, why God loved the shepherd Abel's offering, but not Cain loved it? In the end "fair" at this action there? In fact, the Bible stories abound of unfair, most notably in perfect preservation of food obedience to God's Job Job, God and Satan, but because people are rewarded only by the letter "gamble" so that Job lost all everything, even got leprosy and censure among friends, still discusses his own righteousness of God and faith can not be the same amount in terms of the relationship. Back to the story of Cain and Abel, God, why do not like Cain (and his offerings)? Many who have a different interpretation of the scriptures say, including the view that Cain offered land crops no blood, should not be a sacrifice to God should be items; Cain too proud on the identity of the eldest son, that God should accept self-righteous All offerings; while dissatisfaction directly to God in the face and form of action. The interpretation of the way with the spirit of the Reformed would say that this verse is rendered in misery, violence, hate, anxiety anxiety reality, explore the interaction between God and man, to the scriptures seen how the human face of the first an "unfair", but still believe in God which "righteousness" (Xie Xie Wangzhen text description of the priest). In addition to insightful commentary from the faith perspective, I want to bring out is that this passage also describes the relationship between man and nature in the early days of civilization, human impact on the environment for traces of livestock and agricultural point of view. Examples of Cain to Abel, its meaning may be: agriculture to other organisms and the ecological impact preservation of food is great, so that God (or any person can call on the supreme gods of) for humans "new" developed out of this seed production mode is not joy, but the "ethical flaws" in agricultural production relations embedded in the case of the scriptures.
Survival of mankind for self-destruction of a large-scale environment, indeed from the development of agriculture. If you've ever had to attend Introduction to Anthropology, probably remember the type of human livelihood patterns, usually from a small gathering to discuss changes in hunting to farming: including settlement, clearing irrigation channels, and try to keep seed breeding, as well as the use of large appliances. But these changes have something in common, that is "irreversibly changed the landscape", while the original as a food source or a third-person hunter-gatherer species, began as a pest and persecution. The most obvious example, environmental documentaries from the BBC's "Human Planet", south of the Sahara in Mali farmers to protect their crops, such as locusts from being like "Kui Liya" bird ingestion, will 奎莉亚located under dense tree near the nest FireWire, until dusk Juanniao nest, the nest and birds in one fell swoop oil burned. Imagine the whole woods birds have been "massacred" in this picture, preservation of food it seems that you can understand why Genesis God would not like farmers crop dedication Cain: Because the means used by farmers to harvest, and the benefits of scale in order , causing damage not return.
Discussed from the viewpoint of environmental humanities, human agricultural activities on the environment is a kind of "Oedipus" action: on the one hand to get nutrients from which, on the one hand to kill the "father" (or mother can) earth. In the Greek epic cable Fu Chris "Antioch Gang" which will have this period of choral background, referring to "disturb the ground there are many activities, but most important is the people, because they work!." preservation of food Humanities scholar Timothy Morton In The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness the article preservation of food pointed out that people in agricultural activities after, you can not go back to the "Anthropocene" (Anthropocene) foreshadowed the emergence. Even earlier will affect human use of fire, nor the formation of such a large-scale agricultural operations affect other "species." preservation of food In past generations preservation of food in humans because agricultural practices caused in the world, is Heidegger mentioned "terror fear" (Uncanny): one kind of exploitation because of consumption of agricultural activities, people lose the "living being" state. For agriculture preservation of food caused introspection "Anthropocene" shocks, then there "nomadic" symbol view to Deleuze and Guattari in "Anti-Oedipus" philosophical discourse discussed: Let the significance of derivative continue to occur , get rid of my thinking (cagito) mechanical properties, they also Yan Shen a tuber or root for the tree line opposition discourse, and thus raised (Rhizome) arguments.
Humans try to escape agricultural model derived from reflection and disaster management, in fact, do not need to go far in Greek tragedy. We can political anthropologist James Scott's classic exposition in "weapons of the weak" (Weapons of the Weak) to "governance is not art" (The Art of NOT being Governed) Burma Valley and other Southeast Asian monsoon region that cited peasant life term. Agricultural preservation of food income brought life and technology needs, and enough to form political life of farming by the independent; but often need to carry out small-scale damage, preservation of food spread rumors, delaying the progress of work, causing trouble with the landlord of the ruling class compromise, to get slight action chips. In "Art is not governance," which comes to the tenant at the time of encounter mountain in Southeast Asia turmoil, the first goal is often undermine preservation of food local household registration records where the tax. In order to make themselves after unrest can "temporarily" become a wandering black households, not be subject to the usual suspects. This behavior seems to also be interpreted as instability in the agricultural sectors of society model, trying to swim even plowing acquisition preservation of food mode mobile life.
The most common contemporary touch to the "Anthropocene" dilemma, like Oedipus curses prophecy in general, is already imprinted in our subconscious, "global warming." There are many sources of warming argument, but I believe a lot of use in addition to fuel the industrial revolution formation of greenhouse gases, because large-scale farming, large-scale livestock (and this type of livestock farming is already associated with a given agricultural model to appear) , large-scale preservation of food aquaculture and greenhouse gas formed (mostly higher greenhouse oxynitride instead HCs), the greenhouse effect preservation of food caused more serious. From the Greek era pastoral battle (in the "species" of Aralia established Thebes, corresponding preservation of food to the shepherd was rescued Oedipus the king), killing of the shepherd Abel did in biblical preservation of food times farmers Cain pro Tragedy (Greek mythology preservation of food similar to that after Cain was banished God, but also to build a city -? because preservation of food the agricultural population to be), came to this generation of agriculture and because of the need to cut down forests and nomadic one, the Large livestock farms and feed farm established; we can not you see the history of mechanized agriculture from the time that contemporary society has a common preservation of food trait of oppression?
Therefore preservation of food reflect contemporary environment agriculture, or from another point of view is' agronomic renaissance ", in addition to large-scale cultivation methods and reflection and abandon the keeper, but also includes the way of farmers turn back to a variety of roles Farmers identity. As contemporary artists of the Renaissance is combined with a full range of science, philosophy and art to practice agronomic revival farmers also return a variety of "gardening preservation of food style" operation and scale. The most typical is the Japanese agronomic staff person, "Naoki Shiomi" promoted by "farming X" live . He will pitch in the sharing of Taiwan said that the three most important 21st century integrated identity that "ecologists, artists, and reporters." Ecologists observe and play the role of farmers and create the environment, preservation of food farmers preservation of food artists to create beauty and diversity of rural and agricultural life, and reporters between the farmers in the farm and urban consumption, messaging and thinking plays restructuring function. In these three shades of farmers gradually preservation of food as seen in Taiwan, also gradually have other people in the surrounding large-scale agricultural operations to assist non-subsistence smallholder: As a farmers market organizers, who reported the message as agriculture, or even agricultural appliances and space designers and so on. The emergence of these clumps third persons, but also to respond to the previous "tuber" point of view: the world's only when we give up like branches from a hierarchical view of the time, you will see the proliferation of buds may be opportunities continue to emerge in years.
However, preservation of food the revival of small-scale farmers can change the world by ancient humans greenhouse agriculture Oedipus formed it? Of course it is difficult. At least we can see the areas where large-scale agriculture and livestock has put up a lot of processing of slaughterhouses and processing zones, as well as on the highway running refrigerated containers and eventually went to our good neighbors preservation of food convenient (if true There are long from the land out of something!) or no dust on the beautiful supermarket shelves. Our daily lives have been buried inside these handy beautiful space, and lost the chance preservation of food of food delivered to the front of each paragraph to comment experienced, there is no way from the farmland preservation of food to the table has a different imagination. Large-scale preservation of food agriculture has a "self-denial" character (once again Oedipus) part is that the gap between the foreground and background cancel, which makes the endless natural world could have been mechanization replace and people unable to see. In large scale manufacturing process, no agricultural sunrise "horizon", only 24 hours of continuously running freight vehicles, and more energy is consumed artificial environment defined temperature "fresh." Food and agricultural products in order to "think of any time" can be made to exist and the establishment of production processes, exiled slow natural cycle capability, while in industrialized desert city built countless Cain.
American thinkers temperature 窦贝利 Environment and Agriculture (Wendell Berry) in 2012 on the Jefferson Award Lecture, with "everything from personal experience" (It All Turns on Affection) preservation of food as a subject speech. At the beginning of his speech to his grandfather in 1907 as the starting day, farmers can only be acquired at the time the tobacco companies alone, but because the American Tobacco Company (the James Duke who himself took to sell tobacco to the market tobacco tycoon, founder of Duke University operated) monopolistic lower prices, even after the round-trip train journey home only to end up penniless; Even so, his grandfather still grinding his teeth down to the farm operation, left to his father. Bailey show Americans in the eyes of the difference between this so-called "successful" (boomer) and "fogy" (sticker)'s. Success and desire preservation of food to acquire assets as the driving preservation of food force, while those with old-fashioned "feel" as well as the ability to force conservative. But for Pele, the ability to maintain "imagination" in feel, and is the only way for all of the land and its own feel worthwhile. He mentioned that both his grandfather and James Duke from the farm, but Mr. Duke after becoming tobacco tycoon, has lost so that he can land a conservative willing to imagination and feelings; Duke fell on his imagination, "yet the hand thing." on, and Bailey's grandfather insisted that can keep working on things, to save future generations to like him can feel the "wind, soil, and climate."
As winter in the cold, I walked into a friend in Zhubei in the reclamation of thousands of farms. This is a precision technology and optoelectronics industry preservation of food around the city to head out before the river bed erosion of sandy land, and moved to the city along with the edges of the container hut aboriginal friend out side the simple enclosed land. I have not heard enough fertile environment for soil engrossed camp wants to change the complaint, but the principal friends on limited preservation of food human and agronomic issued creative thought out, weeds, leaves, preservation of food cardboard, manure mixed with carbonized rice husk, and keep yourself out of actinomycetes bacteria are watered fat round creative vegetable bed. "The easiest round vegetable bed, think of this practice are complex imagined before and after simplification in the inside!" "If every five farms can adopt stray animals, preservation of food the entire Hsinchu pearly ring surrounding the farm, you can solve the problem of stray dogs city life. "friend preservation of food resigned from the institute's stable position, and turn to the way the project manager with ITRI and community support Zhubei family support farm operations, draped my hands in the cold roast sweet potatoes, feel the high-speed rail station from a completely different perspective. preservation of food To Bailey, the ability preservation of food to sustain itself for as beside the characters, as well as the environment around them "full feeling" Imagine the ability to use and not for destroying the natural way. When we re-use the imagination to see (and imagination is more important is the concept of) the surrounding environment, as well as whether to have a future as a "feel" preservation of food (affection) thinking, from the beginning of the development of agriculture buried Oedipus curses, possible in human society, and operating large-scale preservation of food chemical agriculture under retain our generation, one of the consequences of resistance preservation of food Anthropocene imagination.
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