Bill Mollison groups the earth’s resources into five categories. These resources are:
- Those which increase by modest use. For example, green browse that is uneaten by deer may become hard and unpalatable.
- Those unaffected by use. Some examples are a view or a good climate, hydroelectric power.
- Those which disappear or degrade if not used. An example is an unharvested crop of an annual.
- Those reduced by use. Some examples are a fish or game stock unwisely used, clay deposits, coal and oil.
- Those which pollute or destroy other resources if used. Examples include radioactives, super highways, large buildings.
Categories 1-3 are those most commonly produced in natural systems and rural living situations, and are the only sustainable basis of society. Categories 4 and 5 are the result of urban and industrial development, and if not used to produce permanent beneficial changes to the ecosystem, become pollutants (some are permanent pollutants in terms of the lifetimes of people).It follows that a sane society manages resources categories 1 to 4 wisely, bans the use of resource category 5, and regulates all uses to produce sustainable yield. – Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, p.16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXCN8sY1OKQ
two truckies got mad in woomerakankie
pudge was loud and mick was cranky
in the midst of the heat and seriously swilling
what are they building this mystery road for?
it’s a smooth approach to a nuclear waste store!
nah it’s a cake more concerned with illegal rank war
so freedom scours more deserts with a morsel of the willing
neither approves of either purpose
pudgie’s due in mudgee
and mick heads off to surfers
skinny mick fueled in coolangatta
while pudge still queued in wangaratta
they managed to conflate each others’ chatter
and eyebrows raise at coolangatta
where they vouchsafed the road was for the latter
convenient how currency quiets clatter
mick piped up but iraq’s in tatters!
the lesser of the evils might be nuclear schmatters!
as pudge tied his tarp at wangaratta
a sixty foot nuke drew in to have a natter
do you know the way to woomerakanker?
my rig’s converted from a petrol tanker
there are many like this will be passing through
all dressed like me in a yellow suit too
pudge thought long and scratched a chin
at last he knew why the road was put in
got on the hooter and breaker breaker
come in mick we got a yellow caker
mick to pudgie loud and clear
don’t ya worry bout that!
is still a habit up here
as yellow pat pulled out from wangaratt
pudge stuck out his head and he yelled to pat
hey yellow let em know in woomerakank
I take a size 24 ! and can borrow a tank
mick held the floor in coolangatta
probing the probity of either matter
I’ve just heard a rumour from wangaratta
the purpose of the road ….is nuclear schmatter
then logistics called up and mick’s speech was cut
we need a thousand barracks at woomerakankie but!
can you start to cart a part
of the freight at eight
yep! said mick
but more tempered phoned his mate
I’ve got two tips for an outback meetin
but the dividends are as short as life is fleetin