permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:57:14 -0700 (PDT), John Schinnerer
<eco_living@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>Aloha,
>
>--- BBurt McClure <lcb@zianet.com> wrote:
>> ARE YOU FOR REAL?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflondon@mindspring.com>
>> > That is an interesting question. There are almost limitless
>> > possibilities and opportunities for putting permaculture to work in
>> > Afganistan, post war, that is. ...
>
>Larry's for real as far as I know...though I've never met him in
>person.  I suppose he could be some sort of random message daemon...
>;-)

Demonaically possessed to deliberately post messages, here
specifically. :-)

I find it profoundly disturbing that, after the war in Afganistan is
over, the same old drug thugs would come back in and coerce
Afgan farmers to continue growing opium poppy and thus continue
to contribute to the exportation of heroin to the world (read: US, UK,
Europe, among other nations). 

LL

>
>What little I've learned about the region lately indicates high
>desert/dryland (*very* dryland, sounds like) strategies.  Anyone know
>what historical subsistence systems were in that area?
>
>That's the easy part, though (tools, techniques and methods).  The
>difficult part, as is so often the case, is cultural, is human
>relatings (or lack thereof).
>
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