Thanks for responding.
I think there is room within Permaculture to do all of the above.
By growing food for ourselves, we are cutting down on the amount of fuel needed to transport our food to us. As petroleum use is one of the big drivers of ecological issues, that's not an insignificant thing.
Also, Pc is about many elements serving each function, and many functions served by each element. I don't think you'd suggest we become a "monoculture" of political action. Besides, once we get outside our own communities, our "leverage" to make changes goes down in a hurry. Think globally and act locally, y'know.
I don't know of another conceptual tool that addresses the needs of human settlements like Permaculture.
Pc ain't the only folks who need to step to the plate. And even if the current ecology collapses, the planet and the biosphere will survive in the long term. It survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, with or without the addition of asteroid collisions. It will survive the human race.
The planet will be here another four billion years, until the Sun either goes cold or goes red giant. If you sterilized every microbe of life on Earth tomorrow, life would eventually arise here again.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't work at being part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Just that, in the Greater Scheme, we need to keep in mind that there *is* a Greater Scheme. And in it, we humans aren't really that important.
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