Comments on: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

By: earthabode

earthabode — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:10:58 +0000

I think the answer is permaculture AND many other things as well. I would also like to say governments are made up of people like you and I and can change like everything else in this world of ours. The good news is we can all play a special part in that change. The video alone hints at a shift in the American governance. Lets wait and see. There are already 6 1/2 billion of us, soon to be more and with the help of technology, we are now capable of impacting our environment in ways our ancestors could only have of dreamed of. So me thinks we are at least playing some part in altering our environment and climate.’The problem is the solution’ kinda rings home for me.

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:53:28 +0000

I don’t disagree with you Jacob, at all. Although it is a fact that governments have been incentivising the exact opposite of what we need for several decades. The ‘Get Big or Get Out’ policies of the U.S. in particular, have seen the small landholder effectively pushed off his land and taken over by large scale monocultures. If governments could see the damage this has caused, and see the necessity of changing policies so as to reincentivise (by removing subsidies from large agribusiness, for example) the small-scale biologically-based farmer, and reincentivising a relocalisation of markets, then the speed of change could be significantly increased.

With governments essentially sold out to large corporations, however, whether this will actually happen is of course highly questionable unfortunately. One dares to dream….

By: Jacob Luetkemeyer

Jacob Luetkemeyer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:36:35 +0000

The answer is Permaculture not government policies and taxes. We need to work on the ground level to make changes in the lifestyles of those around us. NO government policy will ever make a positive change. We as a people have to realize we are not living in a sustainable way. We can create regulations upon regulations and tax until the printing presses can’t print enough and nothing will change. I truly believe this report is of little significance because it is in the wrong hands. It should be in the hands of the people. I have always kept up with environmental issues and personally know climate change is not man-made; however, I know in my heart this planet needs Permaculture.