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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@mailman1.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
  • Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:24:47 -0400

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Scott Pittman <scott@permaculture.org>
wrote:

> When I came up with the idea of "the elephant in the room" it was obvious
> to me that we were not talking about the invisible structures that control
> the planet. My first session in IPC Brazil was titled "Is permaculture
> capitalism and oxymoron".
>

.... _an_ oxymoron

why not permaculture economics instead as an alternative to opening the
capitalism can of worms
I would rather settle on permaculture economies, local and networket
regional and forget capitalism altogether; create new systems of economics.
Buckminster Fuller would wholeheartedly approve as would Edwards Deming (I
assume you know about him).

>
> Since that time I have presented about maintaining the integrity of
> permaculture by insisting on covering all of the concerns of permaculture
> as they are indicated in the permaculture ethics.
>

That is a heavy and ponderous statement. Think about reaching all the
millions of people worldwide who practice permaculture in one form or
another with the challenge to take the ethics seriously.



--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared




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