Small Farm Republic
Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival
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John Klar
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John Klar
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From farmer, lawyer, and political activist John Klar comes a bold, solutions-based plan for Conservatives that gets beyond the fatuous pipe dreams and social-justice platitudes of the dominant, Liberal “Green” agenda—offering a healthy way forward for everyone.
While many on the Left have taken up the mantle of creating a “green” future through climate alarmism, spurious new energy sources, and technocratic control, many on the Right continue to deny imminent environmental threats while pushing for unbridled deregulation of our most destructive industrial forces. Neither approach promises a bright future.
In a time of soil degradation, runaway pollution, food insecurity, and declining human health, the stakes couldn’t be higher, and yet the dominant political voices too often overlook the last best hope for our planet—supporting small, regenerative farmers. In fact, politicians on all sides continue to sell out the interests of small farmers to the devastating power of Big Ag and failed “renewable energy” incentives.
It’s time for a new vision. It’s time for bold new agriculture policies that restore both ecosystems and rural communities.
In Small Farm Republic, John Klar, an agrarian conservative in the mold of Wendell Berry and Joel Salatin, offers an alternative that puts small farmers, regenerative agriculture, and personal liberty at the center of an environmental revival—a message that everyone on the political spectrum needs to hear.
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- Gavin Hudson
- 2024-01-12
Every American who cares about the environment, food, land, and society should read this book to grow a better future together.
I'm a socially liberal (I'm not at all bothered by who married whom or what gender a person chooses), EV-driving, former Musk investor, and star-trek-as-a-best-case-human-future fan. I've just finished listening to Dmall Farm Republic (among others, from First Nations authors to soil ecologists), and I agree wholeheartedly with nearly everything written in Small Farm Republic. I was wondering if he has also read Elinor Ostrom's Nodel Memorial Prize-winning Governing the Commons, which illustrates the superior wisdom of farmers over an external regional or national authority. She documents how local economies can develop and employ policies endorsed and enforced over the long-haul of many generations to sustainably share the use of "common pool resources," such as water for farming; and they can do this better than (and often despite the counterproductive influence of) government.
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