permaculture

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

That seems like a no-brainer : Pc starts with its ethics, the first one
being care of the earth which by definiton excludes all practices that harm
the earth and its inhabitants.
Secondarily, there is the notion of working with nature, which of course
presupposes that nature works extremely, exquisitely well....
This person's use of pesticides is a knee-jerk ( T.I.N.A. = "There Is No
Alternative") response to the appearance of "bugs" and betrays a basic
misunderstanding of ecological, natural and PC principles....


> From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
> Reply-To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 06:26:20 -0800
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [permaculture] Re: pesticides and Permaculture
> 
> hi everyone
> just got an email from a friend in a Permaculture Community in Mexico who
> is here in Santa Barbara and received an email from her community in
> Mexico. I was wondering what the collective wisdom is on Pesticides and
> there use in Permaculture
> wes
> here is her email and
> 
> Hi, just writing to you cause I'm too lazy to do the
> research, I guess, and thought that you might know
> quicker where to find the official Permaculture stand
> on if pesticides are ever used in this system.  More
> than one of my neighbors in our "Permaculture"
> community have been using pesticides, as documented by
> the following email.  Comments?  Comments I can share
> with the community? thanks for your help,
> barbara
> 
> Dear Barbara:
> 
> I spoke Colin about pesticides, and it was true.
> 
> He said that according to permaculture principles, one
> must try to use natural means, but
> if one is  unsuccessful, one may use chemicals.  He
> had those leaf cutter
> ants, and  he said they destroyed 5 trees he hadplanted.  He said he
> had no choice.
> 
> Basically,  we  have all been misled in different ways
> when buying this land, and there is really  nothing we can do about it.
> I don't see that Colin tried other methods before resorting to poisons.
> I thought we had to do everything organically on the land, but apparently
> not everyone agrees.
> 
> 
> 
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