The Future of Permaculture - designing for adaptation, rewilding and peace

[@cornelia9836]

Lovely to see the three of you together! (I met Aranya on a course with him in Germany, Delvin in the South Downs and witnessed Maddy on a talk in London a couple of years ago.) Thank you for sharing inspiring thoughts about the future of permaculture. I loved how we discussed on the Social Permaculture Course in England that maybe one time the term "Permaculture" will become obsolete...soon as we get back to working with nature again in a harmonious way, naturally. Thanks and love xx

[@andrewwoodgate3769]

What an inspiring conversation!

[@karma.1322]

Love the opening song!

[@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner]

Perhaps thinking the word evolution, or that permaculture is evolving, is merely a statement of increasing understanding of the individual. After more than a decade post PDC I'm still thinking about PADM book ideas and even though my thoughts are evolving I still have much more to understand about this manual. Permaculture isn't evolving, its more the understanding of the concepts, methinks.

[@deepashtray5605]

Wonderful idea but has anyone modeled how to scale it up to meet the needs of 9 billion people? Unfortunately a massive shift in the entrenched agricultural business culture which has been in place for at least half a millennium, rewilding, finding/developing the right crops, developing and converting the proper capital investments, growing trees and all to fit local needs on a global scale will take considerably more time than we have left... roughly 30 to 50 years while at the same time trying to both completely switch over to renewable energy and mitigate the collapse of the global climate system. Unless it can be demonstrated that insane profits can be generated within a very short time, convincing the shareholders of Monsanto and Bayer alone would be a daunting task with seriously stiff blow back.

Permaculture never claimed to solve all the problems of billions of people. But literally millions of people have done the course, of this Ia am certain. I am sure there is a great, but silent, cumulative effect. On the other hand regenerative agriculture IS working on very large scales: just Gabe Brown´s consultancy team is orienting farmers who farm 35 million acres i Remembering that Permaculture is much more than producing food, although it does that very successfully.

[@deepashtray5605]

It's what we need, we're just not predisposed to be open to it.

[@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner]

Regen ag won't save the hierarchal system as implemented.

[@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner]

9 billion people are the responsibility of the hierarchy, the social and financial systems, that produced it. In the manual there is a description to the word EVENT, and that's where this current arrangement is heading. Best to build your own little oasis while there is still time.

[@timeenoughforart]

@@RickLarsonPermacultureDesigner An attempt to catch the falling knife. In this case even catching the blade would be a success.