Eric Lim's List: Permaculture

McGaia - corporate family friendly geo-engineering

The WSJ - once a bastion of climate change deniers - recently published a feature lift-out explicitly acknowledging the threat of global warming and environmental crisis: The Need for Geoengineering.

The authors solution is global, corporate, geo-engineering. The problem isn’t that we have not “engineered” too much, we have not “engineered” enough. You can hear the same arguments from the far-right - and increasingly liberals and blue-greens - on all kinds of issues. The problem isn’t with capitalism, or conservatism. The problem is that we haven’t engineered the planet enough. We haven’t been conservative enough, capitalist enough. The problem isn’t that we shouldn’t be fighting in Iraq of AfPak, the problem is that we are not fighting harder with more troops.

The corporate geo-engineers are co-opting the momentum created by the climate change campaigners (with Al Gore the self-appointed saviour) and justifying a further expansion of human domination of the living planet.

Radical historian of science David F Noble calls this the Corporate Climate Coup (audio from Vancouver Cooperative Radio and and text from ZNET in a mashup at Permaculture TV)

1. Corporate Climate Campaigns: Denial vs Trade - Corporate Climate Coup - Part 1
2. Anti-Globalisation - Corporate Climate Coup - Part 2
3. Climate Commisars & Community Climate Campaigns - Corporate Climate Coup - Part 3

RAND corporation had a military analyst research and publish a couple of papers on the potential for perennial polyculture to be used to save the environment and create employment: Seeds of Another Agricultural. Revolution?.

His conclusion was that it might be difficult to find a place for perennial polyculture in todays market place.

However, with the growth of corporate “fair-trade” branding such as Mc Donalds fair-trade coffee, and the awareness raising of such movies as Food Inc, perennial polyculture will become a value-add for corporations looking for environmental sustainabil

Hill-side transformation into food-forest permaculture (YouTube)