Permaculture for Humanity

Peak Moment 146: The future is abundant, asserts permaculture designer Larry Santoyo. His vision of living in the present provides a wonderful antidote to fear about uncertain futures. People need to rediscover that we're part of the ecosystem, and apply permaculture design principles to the many problems we face. Larry teaches sustainable permaculture design as a discovery of the world around us. He notes that trying to be self-sufficient is really anti-permaculture. Instead, we need to develop self-reliance skills. Then as we find others in our communities to interact with, everybody gets to play! http://www.earthflow.com

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[peakmoment]

Climate change a hoax? Not to the U.S. Military, who are making plans because of it. See "Climate Concerns Spur Changes in U.S. Military" on ipsnews-dot-net dated April 30, 2010

[survivalpodcasting]

It is funny how so many Al Gore worshipers buried my last comment because I said Global Warming is a lie. I think most did not read the entire comment and how it defended permaculture. I have been practicing permaculture for a LONG time even though I think man made warming is a lie. The fact that people hate on statements like this shows the depth of dogma and ignorance of those that embrace this voodoo theory in spite of any and all evidence, such as the last three years of falling temps.

[peakmoment]

Independent scientist James Lovelock states that the primary indicator of global climate change is not temperature but melting of polar and glacial ice, both of which are melting far faster than scientific models had predicted. Does it matter whether or not it was human-made? What matters is that it is happening and the consequences could be dire.

[survivalpodcasting]

@peakmoment, Yes man made or not matters because the claim it is is being used to sell the population on complete destruction on the economy. I guess we should ignore period of time just 500 years ago when the Vikings had massive numbers of sheep grazing on the hills in Greenland?

Look I am for alternative energy, promote permaculture on my show, etc. The myth of CO2 based global warming is going to backfire in time. Great ideas don't need a fear myth to sell them, they stand on their own.

[peakmoment]

@survivalpodcasting: again, it's not the temperature fluctations (sure there was a mini-ice age in the 1700s) but the hugely increased CO2 in the atmosphere, more than the systems can absorb.

The CO2 rise correlates directly with burning fossil fuels (and of course with population rise). The graphs are alarming. Last time Earth had this much atmospheric CO2, all absorption systems failed and it took 100,000 years to get back in balance.

[wheelori814]

@peakmoment the last time we had this much co2 was in the mideival ages when there werent any vehicles and such. its a natural cycle and we need to figure out what will be best grown and where because of this new cycle (new to us) look back to that time and there might be answeres.

[peakmoment]

@wheelori814, there's a stunning graph in wikipedia titled "Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere", showing the dramatic spike in CO2 concentrations since the industrial age began. CO2 concentrations are now far higher than even the highest concentrations during the last 400,000 years. The graph shows clearly that the recent spike is not like the previous spikes.

[yogiudo]

Don't forget about the financial oligarchy who expect to be supported and have no interest whatsoever in making any changes to their life style whatsoever and will use force to maintain their life style.

While it is fine and dandy to say the solutions are simply, they're less simple when you have to pay taxes.

[crewlla]

thats right people have to learn to adapt not the earth.

[NavyBlueSTL]

Imagine everyone working to help each other and the earth. That is my dream. I never want to profit off of others. I want to benefit from my own hard work. Thanks for the video.

[mmmga]

"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem"

[kkob]

@yogiudo I understand you are implying TPTB control all and always will, or that you are one of TPTB wanting to encourage the rest of us to give up, but I have a young son, so don't have that luxury.

[yogiudo]

@kkob kkob: Stop perpetuating the meme that *we* are the government. We're not. That is so easily refutable that anyone with even the smallest remnants of living organic tissue in their brains knows it be completely and utterly false - Both logically and intuitively false.

[kkob]

@yogiudo Then we should do nothing? The solutions are simple. The simplest is to stop being afraid and realize you *are* the government, if you want to be. Change is coming. We can adapt, or we can let those you speak of be the destruction of us all.

Up to you.

[711shamonkey]

larry is a badass!

[Hashishin13]

@peakmoment If it isn't temperature related then CO2 concentrations mean nothing at all, the % of CO2 RELATIVE TO EVERYTHING ELSE in the atmosphere is minimal. Even if it tripled it would be under 1% of the air, we are in no risk of suffocation. As you said in another comment the latest graph says this is the highest in 400,000 years, well our species is one million years old, if it didn't kill us then it definatly won't now.

[wheelori814]

@peakmoment there are tons of stunning graphs, and the one i look to be most credible is the co2 in the ice caps. It shows that we have had this much co2 before and it was at the LAST ICE AGE. Once again before the industiral age. The scientist that were talking about global warming were caught in a big lie, if you havent heard about that you should catch up on current events. The earth has been cooling for the past 5 years