permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Founder of The North Face and Esprit brands, Douglas Tompkins, dies in
Patagonia
"After learning of Tompkins' death, former Chilean interior minister
Belisario Velasco said "He illicitly pressured landholders to abandon the
land where their parents and grandparents had lived and died, and bought it
up at despicable prices.""

Maybe his heirs will return some of the land he purchased unethically to
Chilean farmers, ranchers, homesteaders and villagers
making sure that peasant farmers get first choice on the best farmland.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> R.I.P. Douglas Tompkins, What accomplishments!
>
> Profile: Douglas Tompkins, billionaire-turned-conservationist - BBC News
> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35048806
>
> "Douglas Tompkins made a fortune selling high-end jackets and adventure
> gear as the founder of North Face, but he spent his final years railing
> against the very corporate world that made him a billionaire.
> "There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism," he
> said in a 2012 interview
> <http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/doug_tompkins/>.
> "It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and
> over again that it is destroying the world." He moved to the wilds of Chile
> and Argentina, espousing an anti-consumerist philosophy, buying huge swaths
> of land and making enemies along the way."
>
> "But in the late 1980s, he left the business world for South America in
> order to pursue environmentalism, co-founding the Foundation for Deep
> Ecology in 1990. He often said that he felt lucky to have escaped the
> shackles of the corporate class and, in his own words, do something with
> "meaning". That, it seems, he unquestionably did, spending millions of
> dollars buying up swathes of pristine land in Argentina and Chile - areas
> in which he claimed to feel like a "de facto citizen" - and turning them
> into conservation areas."
>
> "He and wife Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, it said, had purchased some 2.2
> million acres of land, including Pumalin Park in Chile, one of the world's
> largest private nature reserves, made up of forests, lakes and fjords
> stretching from the Andes mountains to the Pacific."
>
> ""It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot,"
> he once said. "If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils,
> contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the
> lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.""
>
>
>
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Lawrence F. London
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared/