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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] A Global Cultural Revolution
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:28:12 -0500

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
I just can't believe this. There's more to the situation in Afganistan and it has to do with lack of collaboration with
Afgan leaders in the use of their recommendations for avoiding civilian casualties.

Bob Waldrop: I'd like to hear a brief comment from you about this.

From the beginning the war on the people of
Afghanistan was an unjust war. I was against it then and I remain against it now. I regularly participate in public actions against the war, and recently crafted a series of "Postcards from Osama" posted at my website www.energyconservationinfo.org as PDF's ready to download print, cut, and mail, for people to use in consciousness-raising efforts regarding the real reason for our wars in the Middle East. The most charitable thing I can say about these very short, 150-225 word essays, is that they are inflammatory political satire.

But I continue to think that my most effective anti-war work is with the Oklahoma Food Cooperative and various permaculture activities. Democracy at the federal level in the US is a consumer fraud. As long as I can continue to exercise my right of free speech, I will do so, but I have no illusions about anyone paying any attention at that level.

Succession works in politics just like it works in our gardens and permaculture projects. There's no point in trying to fool Mother Nature, because it can't be done in our wildest delusions. The laws of thermodynamics are the laws of thermodynamics, and they admit no exceptions, not even for United Statesians. I tend to think the best we can hope for is a managed decline, and the most crucial political decisions will be made at the local and county levels.

I wouldn't mind being Secretary of Anarchy, but I don't think I would make a good Secretary of State.

Bob Waldrop, tadpole swimming in Oklahoma City, 18 straight days of RAIN! Last year this time we were burning up, literally, in drought and wildfires. Unbelievably lush growth in my "forest edge garden-yard."





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