{"id":59490,"date":"2021-09-25T06:43:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59490"},"modified":"2021-09-25T06:43:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:43:05","slug":"pandemic-brooding-can-the-permaculture-movement-survive-the-first-severe-test-of-the-energy-descent-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59490","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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As the pandemic rolled into its second year, I became concerned that the psychosocial fallout of the pandemic, and especially the response at the global and local levels, could represent an existential threat to permaculture and kindred movements. At one level, this threat is the same as that to families, workplaces, networks and organisations more generally, where a sense of urgency to implement the official response, especially lockdowns and mass vaccination, is producing a huge gulf between an ever more certain majority and a smaller minority questioning or challenging the official response.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My aim in this essay is to focus on the critical importance of using all our physical, emotional and intellectual resources towards maintaining connections across what could be a widening gulf of frustration and distrust within our movement, reflecting society at large. I want to explore how permaculture ethics and\u00a0design principles<\/a>\u00a0can help us empathetically bridge that gulf without needing to censor our truth or simply avoid the issues.<\/p>\n

While the pandemic and the responses to it will pass in time, I believe the future will be characterised by similar issues that test our ability to tolerate uncertainty and diversity and to thus exercise solidarity within kin, collegiate and network communities of practise.<\/p>\n

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International Permaculture Day May 2013 Daylesford Community Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Future Scenarios and the Brown Tech future<\/strong><\/p>\n

The positive grounded thinking that characterises permaculture has always been informed by a dark view of the state of the world and long-term emerging threats.\u00a0Future Scenarios<\/a><\/em> is my 2008 exploration of four near-future \u2018energy descent\u2019 scenarios driven by the variable rates of oil and resource depletion on the one hand and rate of onset of serious climate change on the other…<\/p>\n

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Pandemic Brooding: Can the Permaculture movement survive the first severe test of the energy descent future?\u00a0 As the pandemic rolled into its second year, I became concerned that the psychosocial fallout of the pandemic, and especially the response at the global and local levels, could represent an existential threat to permaculture and kindred movements. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[31835,10984,341,31834,607,622],"class_list":["post-59490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-brown-tech-future","tag-energy-descent","tag-future","tag-holgrem-design","tag-pandemic","tag-permaculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59491,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59490\/revisions\/59491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}