permaculture

["Steve Bonney" <sustainableearth.steve@verizon.net>]

> but for the most part subsistance is a form of culture - looots
> of local cooperation structures and alternative economics. thats
> where the fun of this lifestyle lies - a load of monetaryly poor
> people having the good life and a great time together

Absolutely, George. Fifty percent of the world's farmers are 
subsistence farmers and in places where industrialized nations, 
primarily the U.S., have not imposed industrial practices and 
disrupted the culture, people do live a prosperous life and
permaculture abounds.

Allan Savory (Holistic Management) has seen many examples of 
this as a wildlife biologist for 20 years in his native Rhodesia (now 
Zimbabwe). A striking example relates to native villages (farming
communities) along riverbanks.  When it was decided to move
these people and their animals away from the rivers to "protect" the 
banks, guess what?  Just the opposite occured. River and stream 
banks degraded and water courses became impaired with sediment 
from bank collapses.

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