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RE: [Permaculture] "Forward" and "Back"/ Discussing Solutions




Aloha,

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Scott Pittman [SMTP:pci@permaculture-inst.org]
>...could you then, perhaps,
>move beyond the digging stick in an attempt to restore what has been
destroyed?

I don't recall either Eric or myself mentioning limiting ourselves to
digging sticks (although a shovel is just a digging stick with shaped metal
on one end... ;-).  I don't imagine that I know how to "restore" what has
been "destroyed" at an industrial scale.

>My point is that the
>thinking, care, and trials have been done ...

Well, I simply disagree, and I'm happy to leave it at that.  A couple of
decades or so of small-scale exploration and experimentation in systems that
spent hundreds and even thousands of years evolving the complexity that we
observe them to have seems woefully inadequate preparation for
industrial-scale intervention into those systems.

>...and now it is time to get off our
>timorous butts and get to work.

No question about that!  I'll stick to grassroots, primarily human-scale
work and let others attempt the industrial-scale work if they feel they
must.  It will be interesting to see what comes of it.

John Schinnerer