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  • From: KNat <knat@sprintmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] 2030
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:59:35 -0500

I've had mixed relationships with ecotourism for decades now, starting with water rights negotiations for reservations including access to tourism in the deals in SW US in the early 70s. I still dabble with entrepreneurs wanting better than casino clientèle to interact with on "their" lands. I will state, I am not a golfer and right now barely involved in directly generating gold. I rely on other people having more money than their ethics allow them to spend on their personal lifestyle or, at least, having a lifestyle that includes sharing gold with me for health and happiness. But, to me, less powerful countries positioning themselves to have part of the world harvest by converting land from growing food to harvesting foreign money is understandable. The people reaching out to welcome them into world finance include both global planners and snake oil salesmen. Of course there is the age old question of who gets to sell/control land none of us own.
As I look at golf courses having to "green" for their consumers with today's media campaign. They're full of niches to maintain locals. The "organic" golf course here is maintained by people who prefer to work outdoors, using compost tea from local sources. The restaurant serves organic cuisine from local small farms who can get the freshness they desire to them. As long as we're using gold currency we need ways to do local harvests. Flying money sources around and "entertaining" them is an alternative to warring with our neighbors. Not that I think the world can support a lot of people of that dollar level, but isn't the other side, the golf courses are where we keep them. Kinda ants & aphids. We just can't let them get too dense or the plant(planet) suffers.
But, on politics, how can we support newly developing nations developing without debts requiring more gold than they can generate. Economies based on real worth of their land use. If the farms are reduced to less and less area, food should be a better commodity than gold. But we need methodology to do per calorie instead of "market" value.

Kathyann




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