By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:18:56 +0000

Thanks Chloe. I agree with you on all counts, and good for you for trying to show people the way forward. They may ridicule, but a correct perception of a right way of life is essentially just a matter of dates. It won’t be long before they’ll all be desperately wishing they could fasttrack the learning curve you’re currently on…

By: Chloe Wolsey

Chloe Wolsey — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:09:45 +0000

Hello Craig,
I’d like to thank you for all your posts: even if they are not commented upon, they are read & taken to heart. I put them all on my Facebook profile (I think to the annoyance of most of our friends, family & acquaintances).
I am most disturbed by the Monsanto world-domination plan rolling out with dangerous GM, mutilated livestock, patents claiming ownership of life itself & now the destruction of the only safe food farming producers in the US – the organic guys.
It seems that US legislation, by allowing corporations has made a class of criminals who are policed by no barriers, making them untouchable… Their money corrupts all those who are voted in to protect the interests of common people: whistle-blowers are fired, discredited, threatened. It astonishes me that the US (and other) populations are so naive as to believe that big business ever had the human interest at heart; not to mention so busy that they are oblivious. And so guilty tht they don’t want to hear the truth, as they feel helpless. Thank God for the Internet, as all the major ‘news’ bodies are owned by the corporations, as are our politicians: with the ability to reshape the world without protest.
Each day, it becomes glaring more apparent that time is running out & wise action must happen on every single human level. It is not enough to dream of living in a different, more ‘ecologial’ way: the urgency is that each of us must change our actions, expectations, world-view radically now. And become politically active (or starve, it seems).
So, thinking about this debilitating sense of ‘helplessness’ that most people suffer from, my partner & I are further determined in our plan to educate & hopefully inspire those around us with the combining of Permaculture, Earthships & Cal Earth homes. To show that even two non-expert girls can pull it off, so anyone can. That is our medium & long-term plan which we are working toward daily – right now we are in a house in the Netherlands: a typical house with a typical tiny back & front yard & are doing all we can to demonstrate that you CAN & HAVE TO grow as much of your own food & be as sustainable as possible within these parameters or ‘confines’. We are doing it as publically as possible, putting ourselves out there for ridicule & curiosity. (Even our mates/family have scoffed that it is pointless & pissing-in-the-wind). So many people say they’d LIKE to be greener, but can’t ‘realistically’, as they have no land. Or can’t because of local laws (like not keeping chickens in tiny yards, or bees), or that more sustainable methods of gaining proteins, like the eating of guinea-pigs is not socially acceptable… There are more excuses than possible foods in a food-forest!
To date, we use grey water for our loo, catch rain water for our food growing (in no-dig horse-poo beds), have gone veggie & are saving for PDC’s & sustainable building Internships. We have gone into partnership with Polish builders to train them up as sustainable building experts of the near future too. That way, people have access to survival tools – food & shelter. The Dutch are a nation of future climate refugees: we all are.
So thanks for the inspiration & urgency: some of us are changing our lives in direct response. To become human climate, post-oil survival resources.
Chloe

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