I like to think (before reading any books, maybe I should say "speculate") that one goal of permaculture is "doing" susteainble things, but isn;t another goal "learning" and "discovering" ways to be more sustainable?
Maybe also or instead:
"experimenting"
"prototyping"
"exploring"
setting an example"
>> If everyone would recognize that we all are personally responsible for stewardship of this planet
That's one reason I wish we would (as a planet or as a country) try to create, as soon as economically possible, space stations and eventually larger space habitats that would be, necessarily, 99% closed ecosystems. Then the boundary is clear and there are no "dumps" or ribvers to flush waste into. Every input and every output is right "in everyone's faces".
It seems that anyone on a space habitat would know right away that everyone HAS to be a good steward (or live in garbage briefly and then suffocate).
Years ago, I thought we would "learn how" to live sustainably once space habitats pioneered a truly closed system. Now I pin my hopes to the belief that space habitats will "teach us that we MUST LEARN HOW, and MUST live" sustainably. The Earth is also a mostly-closed system, it's just big enough that we can pile up a huge mess before we have to admit that the mess is not sustainable.
