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Re: Out of Control
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: Out of Control
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:42:35 -0500
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Venaura Farm
- References: <LISTMANAGER-138133-29630-2001.11.22-00.01.16--skh23ca#yahoo.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <136108@permaculture>
- Reply-to: lflondon@mindspring.com
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:16:41 -0500 (EST), "S.K. Harrison"
<skh23ca@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr."
>
>> Start with an interest in permaculture; collect
>> literature and learn, synthesize and put it to
>> work in one's life; go online and collect more
>> information (mostly free), learn even more,
>> gain expertise. Seems many tens of thousands of
>> people are doing this every year.
>
>This begs the question, How many people are *not*
>doing this every year?
>
>(We have over 6 billion people on this planet, so
>even 1,000,000, to take an arbitrary number,
>represents only a minute fraction of the total
>population--by my calculator, approximately
>0.0002% of the population of the planet.)
Maybe a billion or two are doing intense permaculture but
either not labelling it as such or at all or calling it something else
:-)
L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org