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Living a radically simple permaculture life on 1/4 acre (youtu.be)
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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.

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[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (21 children)

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.

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They explicitly said this wasn't the solution for everyone ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I carefully reread the transcript. They don't say that anywhere.

He talks about sustainability. But if everyone lived sustainably like him the forest would be gone in a few years for firewood.

There are too many people.

[โ€“] Espiritdescali@futurology.today 3 points 4 months ago

there are too many people

This is the root cause of most of our problems.

Climate change is just a symptom of overshoot.

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