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Date of the last update: 01.06.2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, I would like to introduce Permaculture Design (a solutions-oriented ecological design system that could help solve many of our current environmental problems) and the relationships it has with sustainability, climate change, and you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The world is on fire<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  2. The Limits to Growth<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  3. Observation conclusions<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    The world is on fire<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Our world is on fire, said climate change activist Greta Thumberg not long ago, and in my opinion, it really is, not just figuratively but also in a very concrete way, as we are all witnessing through the media and sometimes even personally, however, more forests are destroyed by wildfires each year in both hemispheres, ever more extreme and destructive climatic events are happening even in places where no such events used to happen before, ever higher summer temperatures in places where temperatures used to be mild, deforestation of old-growth forests world-wide with its consequent rapid loss of biodiversity, habitats, widespread pollution, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Such events have long been foreseen by many in the last decades. The concepts of sustainability<\/em> and sustainable development<\/em>, so much used (and abused) nowadays, were initially proposed in the Brundtland Report<\/a> in 1987 and much more widely since. In the 1992 Rio de Janeiro’s Earth Summit, in a first globalized attempt to restrain the way we humans are using the world thanks to the rush for progress, fuelled by the capitalist and neoliberal economic frameworks (as well as by the inordinate use of fossil fuels), for which everything, including ecosystem functions, can be commodified and given a purchase price, which is the pathway leading to the destruction of the Earth’s life support systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Limits to Growth<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    But even before this, other groups such as the Club of Rome, which published the well-known report on \u201cThe Limits to Growth<\/a>\u201d in 1972, stating that economic growth couldn’t continue indefinitely because of resource depletion on a finite planet, were already warning.  At that time, almost no one in positions of power gave credit to this prescient claim. However, some less powerful people in several parts of the world did. Among others, in the second half of last century`s decade of the ’70s, two Australians: Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, who were witnessing how existing green revolution<\/a>‘s agri-business practices were destroying the soil and ecosystems, designed a new type of food production system based on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n