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["Scott Pittman" <scott@permaculture.org>]

And please don't forget the second ethic of permaculture "care of people"!!!

Scott Pittman
Director
Permaculture Institute
www.permaculture.org
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From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Brand
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:54 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Boycott the Olympics ....

Michael,
   
  I don't understand what you are trying to say.  Is it that we don't have a

  voice anyway, then - why vote? - why express disagreement at massacre 
  repression and genocide? - why boycott goods or the games if we can get
  a bargain from slave labour or some fun from the games? never mind those
  that are being killed or are in prison, I can't do anything anyways!  Who
  cares if I make the right choice?  Nobody is going to notice anyway!
   
  If so, then why bother about healing the soil or about permaculture? Why 
  make an effort to grow food without poison?  What is the point in creating
  a garden for a few years before the next guy is going to drown it in
pesticides, 
  herbicides and so on.  What difference does our little quarter acre plot
make 
  when compared to those millions and millions of acres that are
systematically 
  destroyed by the agrochemical industry?  Who is even going to notice a few
  extra earthworms in our garden?
   
  To feel compassionate about soil and nature while at the same time showing
  indifference at the suffering of our fellow human beings just does not
square.
   
  Dieter Brand
  Portugal
  

Michael <mike.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
  I don't even know anybody who even cares about the olympics, yet...
enough people do, apparently. To me, boycotting (& voting, I suppose)
seems like the new 'opiate of the masses'. Right now, without realizing
it, someone on this list is boycotting, uh, ... a Paris Hilton concert.
Does it really change anything? I think competition is great, when it
produces something valuable - the winner makes a solution and the losers
gain experience so that they don't even lose. Why don't they get
together and compete about something that matters if they have so much
damn energy.

-- 
Loose bits sink chips.

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