As biological and ecological metaphors become more powerful in our society i.e. survival of the fittest, and such scientific fundamentalists such as Richard Dawkin’s aggressively promote ideas of the Selfish Gene, its important to review both Darwin’s orginal views evolution and natural selection and and newer scientific synthesis developed by the Gaia and Endosymbiosis theorist Lyn Margulis.
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20040517.htm
6. Gaia Permaculture - how do we globalise the local solutions ? perhaps using the above Design Tools, cooperative, etc? how does permaculture help with geo-engineering, abrupt and extreme climate change, global justice? militarisation ? multinational corporations and a disembodied elite ? fair trade etc ? ? ?
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture/2008-December/032490.html
as I haved posted before, if you thought the mega-projects of the 20th century had too great a downside, its pretty hard to imagine the risks and costs and side effects of the mega-mega-projects coming over the event horizon Gaia Permaculture; application of permaculture principles to planetary level systems how we do that ? I do not know, ppotentially a good theme for tthe launch of Permaculture .TV / Permaculture Cooperative
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture/2009-January/032577.html
*So are we doomed?* There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste - which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering - into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil. Then you can start shifting really hefty quantities of carbon out of the system and pull the CO2 down quite fast.
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