I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.