permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Well, no, if there's not enough people there, they will move elsewhere.
> It's a major problem with country towns in Australia.  I'm guessing at
> what "social viability" is, by the way.

I meant inviting genetic material from elsewhere to expand their pool. 
Strictly their choice of course.

>> For whom, when?
>
> The Colonial Powers you refer to.

That's *a* reality, to be sure, but not one I much care to support. 
There's already enough people backing them, actively or passively as the
case may be.

> Take your snide assertions and place them where your understanding of
> geopolitics is, thanks.

They're already there.  I understand the geopolitics - that doesn't mean I
have to like them, or cease to desire alternatives.

I simply have no patience with people who say "I support that 100%, and
it's never going to happen."

For me those are contradictory statements.  If I support something, I take
action on that, or at least refrain from acting against it.  When I say
"it ain't gonna happen" I'm taking action against it happening.  YMMV,
though not IMO.

> I think that the colonial powers should make full and just reparations.
> But I can't see how it is going to happen without massive, world-wide,
> universal action.  This, and slavery, has already been brought up at
> that UN racism conference and was totally rejected by the colonial
> powers.

So those of us who would like to see it happen can keep working on it. 
Who is it that says "...of course it is impossible, so it will take
longer" - That's more or less my attitude.




John Schinnerer, MA
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