As the crisis progresses, we're going to need everything to get our heads up. After COVID-19 shakes everyone, the priority will be to satisfy the lives of the population. Leaders: If this struggle has been baptized as a war, see in your archives how in the rear has always encouraged the production of food in the portal itself by the citizens, both by families and by auzolan.

Last Thursday, March 26, the amateur horticulturists of Hernani were very happy: among the few exhibitors who went to an authorized weekly market, two incubators came with their varied supply of plants. It is a pity that so little buyer has approached it. If the day before had been communicated to the citizens... The fury of vegetarians tends to be a little later, the owner of a historic seminary of Ibarra consoling me by car, but next to me a couple dozen lettuce, beets and strawberry plants and one more cluster of onions, and I answer him with another reason: that many of those who have their little vegetable garden in a private area outside the house or in the municipal orchards cannot prohibit them from reaching them.

In this baffling attempt to curb the plague, orphans would appear to be barbaric, but if it is true – and we no longer need to be Paul Krugman to realise – that the plague has brought with it a deeper crisis than that of 2008 and that leads us to a long war against Covid-19, we will anticipate the new problems that are being promoted among citizens – as in all serious wars and all – in their homes. With the strict conditions, agree: to work carefully for no one to be contaminated in orchards, to ban the sale of the profits of amateur orchards nowhere, if the situation hardens having to give the community some percent of the vegetables… to put the conditions that are desired, but to promote food production. And make the way for when this forced confinement is speeded up – and relieved – to start more citizens in the cultivation of gardens in parks and gardens that are communal lands. With the crisis of 2008 and as the message of the energy transition spreads, there are many municipalities that have promoted urban gardens during these years; it is not time to go back, but to move forward.

That's how World War II took place. In the time of the World War, governments in the United States and Great Britain promoting the campaigns of Victory Garden (Gardens for Victory) and Dig for Victory: you create food at home and thus facilitate the use of the crops of professional farmers for war. According to the explanations of American researcher Mike Davis, we have it in a Net Upcoming 2007. Amidst the global chaos caused by the coronavirus, one of the authorities’ priorities is to fill the vientres of millions of streets in big cities that feed on food brought from far away. In this way, it has become a strategic necessity for citizens that we can facilitate their participation in food production, that is, that in the war, as in the remote fronts, the crops of professional farmers today reach the food deserts of the cities, in a sufficient and quality way.

Next Net 2007 read as follows:

Our grandparents and grandmothers know how to save the world.

How is it possible for the West to talk about the environment and the unfair distribution of wealth and for consumerism to continue at its peak? Is it possible for the citizens to give up this? Mike Davis thinks parents who knew the war have an answer.

Many of the people who speak as ecologists lead a life of supersize. (...) Would it be possible for the Americans to voluntarily give up the 4x4, the big houses, McDonald’seis and the artificial grass?” The question of journalist and writer Mike Davis is linked to Net Approx (“Since 15 April the English have been eating the planet”) fifteen days ago and has content for other wealthy mundane who are not Yankee. “The main media are constantly talking about carbon credits, hybrid cars, new urbanism… and yet our ecological footprint is getting bigger every day.”

Mike Davis, a California Trostkist investigator, has written in the American electronic magazine Alternet that our grandparents may have an answer: “Home-front ecology: What our grandparents can teach us about saving the world.”

II. Davis is engaged in World War. “In 1940 the Americans fought at once on the other side of the sea fascism and useless waste at home. My parents, their neighbors and millions of citizens were going to work by bicycle leaving their cars in their homes, dug gardens in front of their homes and planted sprouts, recycled toothpaste tubes and cooking oil, worked as volunteers in soldiers' help centers, shared homes and meals with strangers, and tried not to spend more than needed.”

According to Davis, in World War II, Russia continued with impunity. The World War was the largest and largest green campaign in the history of the United States. The Americans did not suffer at home from the destruction of the war, which resulted in numerous deaths and injuries on all fronts, but had to tighten their teeth in search of military victory. By then, American society was already immersed in the new consumerist model, but the war forced the authorities to campaign against waste and for conservation.

The state revived, for example, the famous “Victory Garden”, the winning orchards or the orchards. I. During the World War, they were promoted by President Wilson to remedy the food shortage, and resumed after the great crisis of 1929, with the aim of finding a solution to unemployment. When the United States returned to war after the Pearl Harbor disaster, the Department of Agriculture organized the “Food Fights for Freedom” campaign.

In the garden opposite the White House in 1943, vegetables were planted as an example. In the United States, 20 million new horticulturists were tried in the same work, and between 30 and 40% of the needs occurred in that work, in order to be able to send the fruits of the real farmers to Britain or Russia.

Those urban gardens began to become famous. The famous poet and critic John Malcolm Brinnin wrote the book of poems The Garden is Political, in which he extolled “the fields of internationalism.” Boy Scout, between the unions and the associations, transformed the orchards of the neighborhoods into thousands of ugly and deserted lands that gave the surrounding youth the pride of a self-sufficient hortelan. In Chicago, some 400,000 schoolchildren participated in “Victory Cleanup” operations.

These “transparent victory” campaigns, according to Mike Davis, were intended to go beyond meeting food needs. A greener view of urban centres in their efforts to turn village landfills into orchards and turn thousands of teachers into horticultural teachers.

Austerity is a foreign word.

II. The World War took away the crown from a king who had already become a god in the lives of the Americans. The Detroit car factories were conditioned for the construction of tanks and military aircraft. Gasoline went down as much as rubber. Without them, the transport of the population became insane, so the authorities launched campaigns so that drivers could attract other pedestrians into their vehicles.

Mike Davis tells us the curious slogan of rationing: “When you go alone in the car, you go with Hitler!” Hearing that, how not to share a car... Petrol was also distributed at several points depending on the passengers carrying the cars. The auto-stop was promoted. The propaganda invited the citizens to come closer to their homes than they expected at the bus stops, especially if they were soldiers.

An old means of transport had faded: the horse car. Especially among those who lived in the most remote neighborhoods of the cities. However, what really became fashionable was the bicycle, which in those years, after a golden age, went extinct. The media talked a lot about the British workers who were cycling between the German bombs to their factories. After Harbor cyclist Pearl, the ring became a “victory bike” in the United States, almost equivalent to the secret weapon. “Hundreds of thousands of war workers,” Mike Davis wrote, grabbed their children’s bicycles for the service of society, and cities and neighborhoods celebrated the ‘bike day’. (...) Due to the shortage of gasoline for cars, many families made their bicycle holidays.”

The Civil Defense Office (OCD) advised to buy only what is needed, consume autonomously, and opened consumer information points to teach consumers how to do food, food conservation, and light home appliance repairs in families. In the writings and posters of the OCD – because the war so demanded – the consecrated values of mass consumption, such as the slight changes in fashion, devotion and advertising of appearance, were once again put upside down, and in return, it exalted the image of the mobilized woman who governs the house with rigor.

With the stimulus of the emergency caused by a war, fashions also changed to reduce and survive garments. Together with the criticism of consumerism, the most radical proposals calling for the equality of women and men in clothing were reinforced. Typically, it didn't look good to show luxury with arrogance. On the contrary, it was announced that the rich would leave their homes and their lands for the needs of the army.

In short, II. In the World War, there was a lot of work in the United States, and austerity was imposed on consumption and fashion. After the bewilderment of the principles of war, in the cities and towns a different lifestyle was organized: with less cars, leaving aside the luxuries, observing more daily, cycling, bringing vegetables from the garden itself or from the neighborhood, traveling less and discovering the pleasure of the house and the company. The war had passed and soon senseless consumerism was strengthened again. In Europe, the post-war period was tougher and longer. Nor what to say in Spain. But the consumption and dissipation machine was heated all over the West. And to this day. Will the next war have the same consequences?