permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 12/30/2011 1:52 PM, georg parlow wrote:
> > We have it in Europe
>
> Yes, it has been around for 30 plus years, and I personally now of
> nobody, who had severe blisters or got blind. A minor, temporary rash
> is the most serious I know of. In the tropics they have trees that
> cause the same thing - they simply look out for this and alert
> strangers in the area. No big deal, just part of God's garden. To me

That is certainly reassuring but if you look at the websites and videos 
there are alarming pictures of blistered skin rashes on people plus they 
contend there is a cancer risk factor and of course blindness if you get 
it in your eyes.

If you get poison ivy in your eyes you could go blind from that; burn 
PI, fresh and green or dried and aged, and anyone in contact with the 
smoke will get an inflammation or worse be hospitalized or if that smoke 
is breathed then it could be fatal just as eating it could be.

Poison ivy has been the bane of my existence since childhood; I have 
learned how to handle it and to stay clear of it, also how not to create 
conditions where it can grow and flourish and be difficult or impossible 
to eradicate without herbicides.

> this sounds like just another "dangerous alien! Destroy destroy
> destroy!"-campagne, that is designed to give hundreds of professionals
> a job on the cost of scaring the ignorant that have lost connection
> with nature.

That is a big worry, a war on exotic alien invasive plants armed with 
all sorts of herbicides...