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["Kelly Lockamy" <garden_muse@bellsouth.net>]

read the last paragraph-- sound familiar??
k
----- Original Message -----
From: <Marimike6@cs.com>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Idealize rural life?


> Paul--
>
> I think much of the world does in fact want to emulate American
prosperity.
> They may not like our philosophy of aggression but they'd certainly like
to be
> rich and drive great shiny autos to work. What are the Chinese buying now,
for
> instance? Detroit SUV's not little sensible Yugos.
>
> And it's a fine thing to live the pure life in the country. I like that
> myself. But the majority of the people on earth are brought up urban, and
are not
> likely to trade their version of prosperity for a return to the agrarian
life.
>
> For one thing, there are too blame many of them. When the population is
ten
> billion, how many little garden plots do you think we can carve for them
out of
> the world's total arable land. In one sense it's better to house them in
> densely packed stacks. We should also be dscouraging them from taking
Sunday
> drives in the country.
>
> Urban proles are something we're going to have to live with. To me the
best
> approach is to work on the technology, and give them a means of
transportation
> that relies on more renewable fuels. Because unless the Never-ending War
we're
> in kills a lot more people than it looks like it's killing, there are
always
> going to be a lot more of them than there will be of us.
>
> To me, a political cause worth fighting is the lawful taking of one's land
> through the power of eminent domain. If you haven't looked at this
problem, you
> should. Right now there are several thousand instances each year of
> municipalities claiming land so it can be given over to developers for
"redevelopment".
> There is essentially no legal recourse other than to go up the ladder of
> appeals courts. And many of them of course will back the big guy over the
little
> one.
>
> So we live next door to the cities at our grave risk. Most of them want to
> expand. And when they extend their boundaries, in North Carolina at least,
only
> the voters within the city limits have a say. Those in the rural areas
being
> incorporated are not asked for their opinion.
>
> Encroachment is a very big problem, and it is growing closer to our homes
and
> farms as the population continues to increase.
>
> M. Elvin
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