[Pil-pc-oceania] TAMARA:- Bills current thinking and the PPP

[pacific-edge]

Hi Tamara...
Thanks for circulating this.

A couple questions to follow-up:

1. Are these Bill's actual words? ie. Did he write these as we read them or
are they the reported speech of Bills'?

2. You write that the statement is 'the first installment'. This suggests
more to follow. Any information about this?

3. Do you know the circumstances or context of this statement? ie. when
written/ for what audience/ is this the first distributon of the statement?

It reads like the start of a manifesto, as a work in progress. A critique
with some examples of where things may be being done better.

Thanks if you can fill me in on this.

...Russ Grayson


On 20/7/07 6:40 PM, "tamara griffiths" <scarletwoman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> As requested, some paragraphs from Bill, the first installment.
> Love Tamara
> 
> 
> The Permaculture People‚s Party   (Papers and Proposals)
> The Clarion Call.
> 
> Preamble: Many of us, and all of us trained in good design for houses and
> farms, feel disgusted with the present political systems, which seem to
> prefer war to peace, and want or hunger to plenty. We feel we must act to
> reverse this intellectual decay and consequent global deterioration.
> 
> If we gather our friends, and students of good design, we vastly out-number
> the few who have joined „left right‰ parties. We can take control. We can
> legislate to restore the earth, to save and generate forests, to secure
> water and clean food supplies, and to live to assist all people to survive,
> not to war on them.
> 
> All permaculture graduates know how to design life-enhancing houses and
> farms. Many are involved in aid programmes, or consult with landowners and
> builders. We have, in effect, many thousands of peopleˆyears of experience
> in building sustainable systems. We have served our apprenticeship as worthy
> designers of living systems.
> 
> Thus, we believe it is time to take charge of legislating for sustainable
> living. Why should we, the majority, put up with the stupidities of the
> Liberal/ Labour, Republican/ Democrat, Tory /Socialist dichotomies, whose
> efforts are to defeat each other, not to assist all people?
> 
> No, we must now vote them all out, and start the urgent repair of society
> and the earth itself. Oil men, coal miners, and wood chippers can between
> them destroy all of us, for greed. In this, they are assisted by „our
> government‰. To tolerate this is madness. To tolerate the use of biocides is
> ridiculous, and to subsidise destructive industries is stupidity. We must
> act for sanity and earth-care. Permaculture ethics require us to care for
> the earth. The permaculture lifestyle requires us to help others to care for
> themselves. Our ethics and lifestyle are the very best training for
> responsible government.
> 
> By supporting public trusts, Holland has greatly reduced and in fact largely
> eliminated the Œpublic service‚ (read: public stumbling block) to a very few
> people, thus, we must see the real function of government not to invent
> policies, but to discover existing policies that work well for problem
> solutions.
> 
> Most politicians arise from sportsmen, public broadcasters, film stars,
> lawyers, and businessmen. None of these can be trusted to evolve sensible
> policy; almost all of them operate on conviction based on personal beliefs.
> (no basis for sustainable society)
> 
> No, policy must be based on well-researched, extant, working models, and
> constantly refined by feedback from all levels of users or „consumers‰ of
> that policy. For instance, Finland is noted for the excellence of early
> education, Denmark for the volume of exports based on research, Sweden for
> developing energy systems that eliminate radio active wastes, or the risks
> of atomic energy. And so on∑∑∑..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bangladesh has a wonderful system for lending to the poor, involving small
> loans, support circles for repayments, and good advice. There are very few
> Œbad loans‚. We all need to adopt local cash management, credit unions, mini
> banks, economies of fair exchange of services and goods, not taxed
> expenditure. We do not live to support public servants and bankers in
> luxury, or politicians in great comfort, or C.E.Os in obscene wealth. No, it
> takes too much misery to keep a few manipulators too fat. We live to help
> our families and neighbours live a sustainable existence. This is what
> „policy‰ must be about.
> 
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