Edited from the Transcript of the Permaculture Design Course The Rural Education Center, Wilton, NH USA

[Introduced to me by Will Carey who manages the excellent PCA Permaculture Climate Action! group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2046655862094973/

[Here’s my reaction: I have now [read this], thanks! What an interesting piece. It starts off, to my mind, quite hyberbolic – assertion after assertion after assertion. I get the point, and I agree (though I think it’s not all *correct* – there is such a thing as primeval European forest, I think, from the UK to Bosnia?). And then a lot of lovely sensitive stuff – the ‘what’s killing the trees?’ point – some of it reminiscent, to me, of A Sand County Almanac. And then it gets really powerful, a lot of power packed into a small number of words. And then… it ends! Clearly a transcript, of course.]

https://www.permacultuurnederland.org/permacultuurtk/introduction.pdf