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  • From: "Kishan Mehta" <kisansbc@vsnl.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, <permaculture-owner@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: indianenvironment@yahoogroups.co.in, PRAKRUTI GROUP <prakruti@yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8 MISCANTHUS
  • Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:48:15 +0530

Dear Colleagues,

This issue no: 8), it appears, is devoted to Miscanthus, a
vegetation about which a lot of misunderstanding and
nonunderstanding prevails. Yet there is a growing feeling
for large scale planting to meet the increasing wasteful
energy consumption. Now that oil has hit the peak levels,
nations and people are looking for alternate energy sources.

Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, waves freely
available in plenty are one group of reource. Miscanthus,
Jetropha are another vegetative produce is another
group that depends on land, soil, water nad other natural
but finite sources to grow. The difference is that the first
group is limitless while the second dependent on given
nautral sources scarce in supply.

We look to this issue from a slightly different angle.
Many poor countries, India and China included,
highly populated, need to attend to food neds hence
any diversion to non-food activity would affect the
food security of the country. True, quantum of food
availabilty globally is adequate. The USA for instance
can feed the entire world. The question is whether
poor countries should depend on highly industrialised
and precariously subsidised food production (farms
without farmers approach) to take out hardly
adequate land from producing food for their
millions for cultivating energy vegetation to
maintain the same level of wastefyll life style
that damages the earth and its envirinment?
Should this generation of Homo Sapiens Erectus
use up everything to quicken the disappearance of
life from hte earth?

Two apporaches one of spenidng everything to
meet materialistic level of living and another
of reducing the level of living to sustain the
earth. We would prefer the second which
demands of every human to live responsibily.

Would like to receive reactions nad comments
from the Permaculture angle from avowed
permaculturists that you all are. Best wishes ,
Kisan Mehta Priya Salvi Rajiv Bhatt

PRAKRUTI
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