permaculture

[jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com>]

Your statement about "the least changes" is pure malarkey, and dodging 
personal reaponsibility. Either you are for life, or you are against it.

> Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 20:40:47 -0700
> From: ben.martinhorst@gmail.com
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Drill Baby Drill becomes Burn Baby Burn!
> 
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM, jamesdavid Sneed <harvestcircle@hotmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> >
> > I, to am responsible for the spills and the mining disaters, and so are
> > you. It is not just the greedy corporate owners, but all of us. I can't 
> > stop
> > them, so I must change myself, every bit of myself that does not live in
> > harmony on this planet.
> >
> 
> Well, yes, we're all guilty, but to paraphrase Orwell, some of us are more
> guilty than others. I refuse to accept that my footprint, at perhaps 5
> metric tons of CO2/year, is somehow equivalent to BP's 1,376,000,000
> tons/year (that's the 2004 number). Personal sustainability is something all
> of us should be seeking (and I'd really like to be able to get my own carbon
> footprint down into negative numbers), but even if everybody subscribed to
> this list were to become an ecological saint, it still wouldn't make a dent
> in the globes crises. We need to look for the least change for greatest
> effect... it seems to me that some of those "least changes" involve
> reforming broader societal systems, including the way corporations are
> chartered, structured, and held accountable (for example, dismantling
> corporate "personhood" and ensuring that the precautionary principle is
> observed in corporate charters), rather than trying to go individual by
> individual.
> 
> In their own personal practices, many permaculturists have created solutions
> that have broader impact beyond their own daily lives -- personal change can
> be influential to broader society. But while I've been progressively making
> changes in my own lifestyle, it's defeatist to think that I can't be
> politically or socially active until I've got all my own issues perfectly
> figured out. Sometimes it takes concerted action against vested interests --
> in this case Big Oil -- for alternatives to gain any broad traction or
> acceptance.
> 
> -Ben
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