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June 3, 2015 · Uncategorized

496 Gonna Build Us A Desert (video)

27592776_sBack in november of 2014 my Facebook feed “fed” me a video by another “Mark Shepard”.

The other “Mark Shepard” is a radically innovative proponent of something he calls “Restoration Agriculture”.

I was blown away and rendered HOPEFUL by his clarity, passion and practical solutions for our current path of planetary desertification. Interestinglythe-other-mark-shepard-ss enough, Mark Shepard the farmer is also a songwriter… If you know anything about THIS Mark Shepard, I love to “farm” as well growing greens all year around in my apartment as well as whatever I can grow in the backyard during the summer. And while the “edible landscape” is nice, ultimately we need to change our industrial farming practices on a MASSIVE scale in order to sustainably feed the billions of us on this little spaceship we call Earth.

This song is dedicated to the other, “Mark Shepard.”

Good work dude! Let me know how I can help!

Gonna Build Us A Desert

(On The Bones of Paradise)

Song #496 | 12/31/2014  |  CD: tbd

Mono Cropping
Factory farms
Mega Manure lagoons
Behind Mega Barns

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Frack the future
Frack the past
Frack the aquifers
To extract a little gas

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Mass extinctions
While we watch football games
And debate distinctions
And who to blame

Gonna Build us a desert
On the Bones of Paradise

Anti-biotics
by the ton
build up resistance
like a smoking gun

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Poison water
Poison air
Poison thinking
And we’ll soon be there

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

10 billion chickens sit
In their own shit
To keep it cheap enough
So you’ll buy it…

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Masive erosion
Toxic flow
And when it’s over
where are we gonna go?

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

em | AmSus at 5th fret

 

Copyright 2014-2015 by Mark Lewis Shepard. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Photo credits –

#1 : Boats and cows in desert around Moynaq, Muynak or Moynoq – Aral sea or Aral lake – Uzbekistan – Asia Copyright: prudek / 123RF Stock Photo

#2: Mark Shepard Restoration Agriculture Intro Video screen capture

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