but your political economy has none of the depth or subtlety of Mollison
("permaculture is more than a gardening system") or any of the grassroots
activists I have met doing permaculture or involved in other activism that I
have filmed or aggregated
as far as I can tell you are not engaging any of the powerful lobbies like
rural conservatives or agricultural movements like Doherty is doing with
RegenAG http://permaculture.tv/?s=regenag
you are not doing extreme permaculture in disaster or war zones like Uganda
or Aceh like Steve Cran http://permaculture.tv/?s=steve+cran
you are not engaged in international and interfaith public diplomacy like
Geoff Lawton in Jordan, Palestine and the Middle East
you are not building international activist and grassroots networks like
Tony Andersen of Klimaforum http://permaculture.tv/?s=tony+andersen
engaging royalty or dispossed farmers like Ali Shariff in the Amazon or
Africa http://permaculture.tv/?s=ali+sharif
young grassroots activists with a serious political economy
http://permaculture.tv/liberation-permaculture-design-course/
instead, you have a new age flat earth political economy like Holmgren or
Rob Hopkins, you live in a green ghetto in the heart of Empire and you
confuse your own general comfort and affluence with the general state of
your own country men and woman and more generally the very real desperation
and increasing anger in the world.
The Tea Party in the USA (and globally such as India) and the rise of other
ultra-right polpulist and crypto fascism is driven by this liberal
disengagement. In India there is more political and economic activism
http://permaculture.tv/freedom-ahead/
The general level of awareness, especially amongst the so-called elite in
the USA, the understanding of political economy is retarded, or is it you
just dont care ?
in Australia a renaissance in permaculture in the mainstream with a
sophistication and organisation http://permaculture.tv/?s=apc10 that
fortunately permaculture has been an international peace movement from the
beginning and I think it will survive despite the implicit imperialism in
some of permaculture and transition's big name "leaders"
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