permaculture

[Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia@yahoo.com>]

Although I sympathize with pretty much every view about the future of Earth, 
our species, and the worth of practicing permaculture and trying to change 
society (see Heather's recent comments [heather@ecoversity.org]), I think it 
is a kind of generational arrogance to think that we are going to go extinct 
any time soon.  It's always possible, but history doesn't support this idea.  
Read Jared Diamond's Collapse.  Even when societies wind down and diminish in 
power and compexity, people survive.  Even in some of the most extreme cases, 
like on Easter Island or with the Anasazi in the Southwest, a few people 
survive and/or move somewhere else.  Granted, there really isn't a somewhere 
else anymore and the problems we have are on an unprecendented scale.  But 
enough people are likely to survive any catastrophe that what we do now could 
have an impact on how things turn out.  One of the main points of the 
Bhagavad Gita is to make your best effort in life without attachment to the 
results. 
 If it's beautiful, just do it.
   
  Rain

                        
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