Permaculture Climate Change Statement – International Permaculture Convergence Climate Change Group
Following is The Permaculture Climate Change Statement, composed by the Climate Change Group at the International Permaculture Convergence held in the U.K from Sept 10-16, 2015. - This Statement was a adopted by the entire IPC General Assembly. Permaculture is a system of ecological design as well as a global movement of practitioners, educators, researchers and organizers, bound by three core ethics: care for the earth, care for the people and care for the future. Permaculture integrates knowledge and practices that draw from many disciplines and links them into solutions to meet human needs while ensuring a resilient future. With little funding or institutional support, this movement has spread over the past forty years and now represents projects on every inhabited continent, The permaculture movement offers vital perspectives and tools to address catastrophic climate change. Human-caused climate change is a crisis of systems—ecosystems and social systems--and must be addressed systemically. No single new technology or blanket solution will solve the problem. Permaculture employs systems thinking, looking at patterns, relationships and flows, linking solutions together into synergistic strategies that work with nature and fit local conditions, terrain, and cultures. Efforts to address the climate crisis must be rooted in social, economic, and ecological justice. The barriers to solutions are political and social, not technical, and the impacts of climate change fall most heavily on frontline communities, ...
