b'The arcs of population, consumerism, militarism, industrialism, urbanism, technological adventurism, racism and economic growth are exceedingly difficult to bend. At the level of institutions and systemsthe daily spectacle, move fast and break things and change elections notwithstandingalmost impossible to bend. What if, in addition to efforts to bend the practically unbendable at the level of institutions and systems, we were to put more effort into mending the eminently mendable at the level of foodshed and watershed?What ifbecause I believe Thoreau said, Its better to move a pile of stones than solve a moral problem, although I cannot retrieve that citationwe were to decide that local investing could be as powerful as global protesting?What if we discovered ways to navigate back and forth between the trillions of dollars coursing through the global economy every day and the trillions of micro-organisms in each handful of fertile soil?Its comforting to think that economists and financiers and CEOs and shareholders and politicians may change their stripes in the wake of the current pandemic. But we mustnt kid ourselves. Turn that stripe-changing intention inward.10'