Chapter 1
Transcript of a
Permaculture Design
Course by B.
Mollison
(1.
0-4)
First Introduction (Thomas Fischbacher)
t.
fischbacher@soton.
ac.
uk
The presumably most fundamental issue underlying the present converging
financial, climate, food, energy, and...
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Chapter 1
Transcript of a
Permaculture Design
Course by B.
Mollison
(1.
0-4)
First Introduction (Thomas Fischbacher)
t.
fischbacher@soton.
ac.
uk
The presumably most fundamental issue underlying the present converging
financial, climate, food, energy, and environmental crises is that most of us only
have a very dim perception of what it actually would mean to “live sustainably”
if one were for once to take that notion seriously.
Quite a number of people seem
to have this vague idea that the destruction of our natural resources is kind of
inevitable as the alternative would invariably involve “going back to the stone
age”.
Related to this problem is a very widespread misconception in our society
concerning the notions of “ethics” and “ecology”.
Almost all people in our
society perceive these as what one may call “must-not-do” disciplines: they are
widely thought to exclusively deliver prohibitions.
Many a book on ecology has
been written whose introduction starts out mentioning “The
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