I could not agree more with your framing here and am grateful you all are working to advance this conversation. The commitment to deep regeneration is difficult work as you all know. It requires sitting with uncertainty and complexity and digging deeper. For many, I believe the discomfort is too much to bear. Action of any sort ends up being the mechanism to overcome that underlying anxiety. We need better tools to meet our own anxiety and make space for slowly and methodically working our way through the complex questions before us.
My pleasure! A follow-up question that is arising for me this morning is this. Within the U.S. context, are you seeing examples of deep regeneration happening at regional scale? And if so, are you aware of what processes they are bringing to bear to develop a shared awareness of the current reality and a shared vision of their path forward?
One of the main issues with shallow regeneration is the new industry of carbon offsets building on the assumption that RA will sequester carbon so that big food can use those as credits to validate carbon production. Again, the whole idea of capitalising the act of growing food by paving a way for industries to benefit from it was the core issue and its repeating again.
Thank you for this piece, it is a sensational and very clarifying read and I will look to share this with my chemical industry contacts and my own work organisation.
Thank you for the care taken in writing this, I appreciate the call to do better and directional pointers, it's also exceptionally clear and well-stated and the tone is perfect for sharing with others, which I plan to do. It's a piece that seems like something an organization can regroup around.
Great discourse, yes I have been ranting for years about that we need to deal with the grief and guilt of colonalism as a part toward regenerative culture - just to acknowledge it goes a long way & is the low-hanging fruit, dealing with it is a longer process. People often fall silent at that stage.
I could not agree more with your framing here and am grateful you all are working to advance this conversation. The commitment to deep regeneration is difficult work as you all know. It requires sitting with uncertainty and complexity and digging deeper. For many, I believe the discomfort is too much to bear. Action of any sort ends up being the mechanism to overcome that underlying anxiety. We need better tools to meet our own anxiety and make space for slowly and methodically working our way through the complex questions before us.
My pleasure! A follow-up question that is arising for me this morning is this. Within the U.S. context, are you seeing examples of deep regeneration happening at regional scale? And if so, are you aware of what processes they are bringing to bear to develop a shared awareness of the current reality and a shared vision of their path forward?
One of the main issues with shallow regeneration is the new industry of carbon offsets building on the assumption that RA will sequester carbon so that big food can use those as credits to validate carbon production. Again, the whole idea of capitalising the act of growing food by paving a way for industries to benefit from it was the core issue and its repeating again.
Thank you for this piece, it is a sensational and very clarifying read and I will look to share this with my chemical industry contacts and my own work organisation.
Thank you for the care taken in writing this, I appreciate the call to do better and directional pointers, it's also exceptionally clear and well-stated and the tone is perfect for sharing with others, which I plan to do. It's a piece that seems like something an organization can regroup around.
This exactly names what I've been thinking about with the claims to regenerative agriculture of large scale farmers where I'm from in the UK https://gregfrey.substack.com/p/land-visions-fantasies-and-farmers -- thank you for sharing!
Great discourse, yes I have been ranting for years about that we need to deal with the grief and guilt of colonalism as a part toward regenerative culture - just to acknowledge it goes a long way & is the low-hanging fruit, dealing with it is a longer process. People often fall silent at that stage.