Permaculture principle #4: Apply self-regulation and accept feedback

A powerful principle: simple in its workings, so difficult to fully engage with! The truth is, I have found this principle the toughest one to reflect on so far! Why might that be? Well, partly I think because I have been witnessing how growing positive feedbacks of climate change and biodiversity erosion seem to be […]

“Why?” The ecological transition in search of meaning

“God is dead, Marx is dead, and I don’t feel very well myself,” said Woody Allen. Today, it is what we commonly call “the planet” that is not doing very well: climate disruption, rising temperatures and water levels, collapse of biodiversity, increase in zoonotic diseases, of which Covid-19 is the devastating incarnation. By 2050, planet […]

Should we wage war on climate?

The signs are there, hardly avoidable; it’s coming our way. Climate change is becoming obvious, its effects already bearing on us, and the science that already told us some decades ago about the phenomenon we are now experiencing is now telling us that we have only a few years to act (20 for the more […]