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  • From: Jacque Greenleaf <jacque@book-woman.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] right livelihood advice request
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:11:26 -0800


On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:54 PM, <fdnokes@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe you could be like a 'mole' and tip off your environmentalist friends
> of what's going on...

I had a string of similar environmental survey jobs for various public
agencies a number of years ago. The reasons to do the job - I learned a lot
about natural systems and environmental politics. But finally, I just
couldn't do it anymore. I will say that people who can stick with an agency
job, and maybe even a private sector job, do indeed have a long-term effect -
I've seen it many times more than once. But you have to have a patience for
b.s. that I simply don't possess.

If you could do it for a while, and pile up some money that would enable you
to do something more to your liking, then it is worth serious consideration.
After all, if you don't do the job, they will find someone else to do it.

And the "mole" factor is a serious plus. I have been both the informer and
the informed, and I can tell you that certain awful things did not happen
because of inside info.

> Also, a good place to spread the word of how all things are connected.
> If you're going to communicate with anyone to make a difference, these
> might
> be the folks.
> After you get sick of it, you could quit.
> Meantime, you have funds for your projects?
>
> Not sure if any of this makes sense or is 'on target'.
>
> frances
>

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been
originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this
planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so
simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,
and are being, evolved. - - Charles Darwin




  • Re: [permaculture] right livelihood advice request, Jacque Greenleaf, 01/20/2010

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