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For many, the Permaculture focus on land and natural resource management is complimentary to the industrial focus of the "green tech" optimists, but there are differences. Permaculture: | For many, the Permaculture focus on land and natural resource management is complimentary to the industrial focus of the "green tech" optimists, but there are differences. Permaculture: | ||
- | * gives priority to using existing wealth to rebuilding natural capital, especially trees and forests, as a proven storage of wealth to sustain humanity into a future with less fossil fuel. | + | |
- | * emphasises bottom-up " | + | * emphasises bottom-up " |
- | * more fundamentally, | + | * more fundamentally, |
- | * sees pre-industrial sustainable societies as providing models that reflect the more general system design principles observable in nature,and relevant to post-industrial systems. | + | * sees pre-industrial sustainable societies as providing models that reflect the more general system design principles observable in nature,and relevant to post-industrial systems. |
The assumptions on which permaculture was originally based were: | The assumptions on which permaculture was originally based were: | ||
- | * The environmental crisis is real and its magnitude and impact directly threatens our survival. | + | |
- | * The ongoing impact of golbal industrial society and human numbers on biodiversity would be far greater than has ever been. | + | * The ongoing impact of golbal industrial society and human numbers on biodiversity would be far greater than has ever been. |
- | * Humans are subject to the same scientific laws which govern the entire universe including the evolution of life. | + | * Humans are subject to the same scientific laws which govern the entire universe including the evolution of life. |
- | * The inevitable depletion of non-renewable fuels will see a return to general pre-industrial systems dependent on renewable energy and resources. | + | * The inevitable depletion of non-renewable fuels will see a return to general pre-industrial systems dependent on renewable energy and resources. |
Further, insofar as permaculture is an appropriate response to limitations on use of energy and natural resources, it will move on from its current status as " | Further, insofar as permaculture is an appropriate response to limitations on use of energy and natural resources, it will move on from its current status as " |