permaculture

[Xavier Dequaire <xavierd@online.no>]

Well, cars are designed basically to move people and goods,
pesticides and herbicides,like weapons are made to kill.

This is a big difference.
Even though the use of car generates a lot of death and health problems
through traffic accidents and indirectly through pollution,it cannot be
compared so straithforward with the poison industry.

>Currently though, many of us are dependent on our cars
>*because we have no other alternative*.
I guess this is a very american assumption.
There are a lot of alternatives: cycling for local transportation, busses
and trains for longer travels and also an alternative design of
settlement-urbanisme. May be also reducing the "need" to move around all
the time. It requires a design that adress that and include public
transportations.

The modern pesticides and herbicides industries have their origine in the
successfull Nazi-experiments of WWII,where those products showed how well
they functionned on people, no wonder people get sick of their use!

To help raising consciousness, I think we should always call pesticides and
herbicides what they are: poisons and add that word each time we discuss
pesticides and herbicides, and that they are produced to kill like weapons.
even though some poisons can seem to be usefull in some cases,
and nature is full of poisons,
POISON and KILLING industries is what MONSANTO, BAYER, CIBA-GEGI among
others are.

Xavier Dequaire