I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.