permaculture

[John Schinnerer <JohnS@STLabs.com>]

Aloha,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. [SMTP:london@sunsite.unc.edu]
        >...There is
        >no wide-scale substitute for the automobile like there is for
chemical
        >pesticide use.  We are justified in continuing to use the car,
despite it's
        >enormous pollution output, because there is little viable
alternative. 

        I doubt that "substitutes" have anything to do with it in either
case.  Looks more like cultural implicits to me.  If we insist on being able
to drive a private vehicle (or a semi full of produce, "organic" or not)
wherever and whenever we want we will justify (and are justifying) whatever
damage to our life-support systems we please.  Ending chemical pesticide use
is only a small part of the (cultural) change necessary to slow and perhaps
reverse our rush towards extinction.  Changing our land and transportation
use patterns seems to me a much larger part.

        John Schinnerer