Une critique sur les adeptes de la #permaculture. D’après l’expérience que j’en ai, ça tombe juste.
Permaculture Design Course Syndrome | Small Farm Future
▻http://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/?p=491
From my perspective as a small-scale agroecologically-oriented commercial grower, I’d offer the following criticism of the package that many PDC graduates seem to emerge with:
– a tendency to over-emphasise the role of smart design tricks and to under-emphasise the important but unglamorous basics of sound growing/farming skills
– a tendency to be over-impressed by the media schtick of various global permaculture gurus who very rarely make a living from producing basic food commodities, and a tendency not to notice what many unsung local farmers and growers are achieving as ‘implicit permaculturists’ who simply apply good design in their practice
– a tendency to a religious mode of thinking, in which the rudiments of scientific rigour are rejected as ‘positivism’ or ‘reductionism’ and replaced by an overwhelming faith in the views of permaculture gurus as per my previous point
– a metropolitan disdain for farmers past and present, and a conviction that the way they have done things is wrong
– an insufficiently fine-grained understanding of agro-ecosystems