permaculture

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Big snip since I have no problems with the rest of the story.
Well, I have no problems with what is below here either only that my 
experiences from about 1960 were a bit different.
Until about then there was a lot of nature in Flanders but from then on it 
went fast downhill. Where there were millions of frogs and plentiful fish I 
remember the water all of a sudden turning red and blue the next day. A 
carpet factory getting rid of excess dies. And all those animals died 
leaving a stinking waste behind.
And thousands of roads were build everywhere and the most productive 
orchards disappeared because all along these roads new houses would go up. 
Enormous amounts of toxic wastes were buried and then a new town build on 
top of that. The most fertile soil imaginable and a few thousand small farms 
were buried under three meters of dredging sand to expand the port of 
Antwerp and then a nuclear plant build on top of that.
And I can see the same thing happening now in Ireland although a bit slower.
I have been fighting this degradation all my life and I don't think I won a 
single battle yet.
John

> I was 21 in 1960
> and the Chinese invasion of Tibet had already happened; the full
> meaning, if not even news of as well, along with that of the sad events
> in Argentina, Brazil and Chile escaped my friends and I during the
> period 1960-1980. None of my closest friend were involved in anything
> political during those times. We were musicians, artists, thinkers and
> dreamers interested in the teachings of Indian mystics.
> I wish I had learned about Tibetan Buddhism then.
>
> LL