permaculture

[dphiggin@fes.uwaterloo.ca]

We have to keep pushing long-term thinking to people.

Not only are ruined soils not considered, but yields are the incorrect 
measure, and apparently production is better.
Small farms are much more productive per acre than large farms with 
conventional agriculture.

Keep education economists and the public!

Darcy Higgins
President, University of Waterloo Campus Green Party


> It is unbelievable to me that this kind of crap is still published by
> intelligent people not on the payroll of agribiz.  I think the yield
> question has to be fought head-on for both quality AND quantity, with
> quantity being calculated over 10 to 20 years versus the one-year
> shot-in-the-arm crowd that doesn't tell you 10 years from now the soil
> will be dead and the bugs mutated.  Arguing chemicals and GMOs are
> actually green is extremely seductive to the press.

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