Living a radically simple permaculture life on 1/4 acre
Living a radically simple permaculture life on 1/4 acre
Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on a 1/4-acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals.
They grow most of their own food, don't own cars and ride their bikes instead, use very little electricity, and forage food and materials from their local forest.
Last sentence:
"Forage for food and materials from their local forest."
Talk about burying the lede. They can only function on a quarter acre by "stealing" from the public forests.
If everyone did that there would be no public forests. There's not enough wood and food for everyone.
LoL "stealing". Are you "stealing" the air you're breathing right now? That's a weird choice of word. Anyway.
But you're right. If everyone started to live like this, it would be devastating. But when you think about it, think about how many forests were cut down and how much land was taken and transformed just for agriculture around the world just to feed us humans. It's insane.
I put it in quotes because I didn't have a better word. If it's a public park and I walk in with turf cutter, and take all the grass for my own yard, that's clearly stealing from everyone.
How much can I take from a public forest without it being stealing? Can I cut down 1 tree for firewood? 10? How much foraging can I do before local wildlife is affected?
Pretty sure they don't grow their bicycles either!
He talked about community trade so I'll give him that. I don't want to give the impression that his lifestyle of living with less is wrong or bad.
I only question his sustainability claims when he is clearing the forest to heat his house.
I really don't understand why you're nitpicking someone who is trying to drastically reduce their impact. What would you recommend they do?
That guy is exactly who people point to when they say climate change activists are insufferable twats. Lmao like sure bud keep eating your own, that's historically worked well.
The real answer to your question what would you recommend they do? Not listen to that guy.
If we want to have a stable livable climate we need to.live with the emissions of the average Cuban (Professor Kevin Anderson) That allows the worlds poorest to have more emissions per capita and the worlds richest to come down a lot, and by a lot I mean a metric shit load.
How we do that and what that looks like is up to us but if we don't soon, we'll likely collapse. civilisation anyway and none if it will matter and we won't be talking about it on here.
Everyone should be poor, great!
100s of millions are already doing this, it’s called poverty.
They are not limiting their foot print to 1/4 acre. They are using bikes, using glass and forge the forest.
It's like offloading your aluminum production to another country and claiming you are living 100% on renewable.