Perhaps you can provide some elaboration or evidence for this >statement. Correct me if I'm wrong, but permaculture methods are >not widespread in either sustainable agriculture or environmental >conservation. It would be great if they were, but in 2009 it is >difficult to imagine how the environment could be "in a much better >state" because of permaculture.
Part of the difficulty is that permaculture ideas are largely speculative and there is a great deal of risk involvedin>actually implementing them on any kind of large scale. Perhaps if permaculture had started out as being morecentralized and democratic (as opposed to decentralized and autocratic a la Mollison), it would have developed thesort>of infrastructure needed to move beyond demo sites and a handful of NGO projects, but who can say?>
To make such a statement you obviously do not know much about permaculture, and for that matter natural agriculture and
landscaping either.
Anyway, it's easy to see how the initial structure lead the movement there. Most people I've met within thesome>level.
permaculture movement seem to be perfectly happy with it staying on that track; it is satisfying peoples' needs on
Pretty short-sighted and limited view of permaculture. Interesting that you give little credit to Mollison, other than
for the wrong reasons.
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