Subject: [permaculture] BY THE LIGHT OF A BURNING BRIDGE
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:44:36 +0000
Why is this topic on THIS list? It's been on every other list I'm on but I
do NOT see the relationship to Permaculture? Unless Michael's starting an
ecovillage there?
I agree, I found it interesting to read, but maybe not what I expect from
this list.
I have always been inspired by the life of Scott Nearing. He was also
marginalized in the U.S. for his political views. He thought about leaving
the U.S. but decided to stay and went back to the land. With his wife Helen
he built a homestead in Vermont, and later moved to Maine. Their books on
Living the Good Life inspired several generations of homesteaders and the
back to the land movement. I don't know if Mike Ruppert has any such
intentions. But I wish him luck in Venezuela, there's a much more
interesting political climate there than in the U.S. where it may be
difficult for someone with a conscience to live. I hope he finds peace.
I sometimes think: what would a person like Scott Nearing have done if he
had lived in the tropics?