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normandy, france earthship biotecture - we need your help kbase 05-27-2007
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Posted by on May 27, 2007, 1:57 pm
When will the subtle emergency facing the earth and its ability to
support human life be visible enough to penetrate human dogma?

An American team of Earthship builders who build the most radical form
of sustainable housing available on the planet today went to France to
share thirty years of research and development with the people of
France in an effort to educate the local people on systems of living
that can curb global warming and at the very least make it possible
for humanity to survive longer in an uncertain future.

The building is as of this date almost finished and already hundreds
of local people in the small town of Ger are visiting the site on a
daily basis. School children are coming in groups every week to learn
about the sustainable systems. The project has been in the headlines
of local news papers four times since it was started in late April,
2007.

The US team, however ,was hauled off to the police station for ten
hours and the initiator of the project , Michael Reynolds, was
interrogated for fourteen hours and charged with criminal concealment
of work. He has been forced to pay $30,000 in taxes to the French
Government and has to go to French court on June 5th to face charges
and fines and possible jail sentencing. All of this for trying to
share methods of sustainable living with another country.

A fisherman sets out snare nets for tuna. The nets are specifically
for catching tuna. Sometimes a dolphin is caught in the tuna snare.
The fisherman has the sense to determine that even though his nets are
for tuna, he has snared a dolphin and rather than clubbing the dolphin
with the rest of the tuna and putting it on ice, he lets the dolphin
go free for a dolphin is not a tuna. If only the French government
could be so wise. It is this simple wisdom that is necessary to give
us a chance for a future on this planet.

To help us please send an email to biotecture@earthship.org, which
will be compiled and anonomously presented in support of Michael
Reynolds and Earthship Biotecture.

For more information please go to:
http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53

thanks!

--
Earthship Biotecture


Posted by 3D Peruna on May 27, 2007, 10:31 pm
I cannot buy into the whole "emergency facing the earth" thing. Sorry.
It's a crock. I no longer believe ANY of it. The catastrophic global
warmers are a religious nuts working hard to convert us all.

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1603

1) Using less of everything is simply prudent for personal reasons,
with the side effect of helping the "planet."

2) Most of the problems facing the earth are political in nature, not
because I choose to drive an SUV. And this is going to get worse as
more and more people starting telling us how we should live.

3) Nothing you, or your group does, is going to make a hoot bit of
difference in the long run. It's the equivalent of a dust mite in the
Universe.

4) "Sustainable" doesn't really mean anything. Even the "green" people
can't agree on a common definition. It means what you want it to mean,
and most of the time it means "go live in the stone age."

5) I'm not sticking my head in the sand--but you all are.


Posted by gruhn on May 27, 2007, 10:56 pm
On May 27, 1:57 pm, k...@earthship.org wrote:
> When will the subtle emergency facing the earth and its ability to
> support human life be visible enough to penetrate human dogma?

The "subtle emergency facing the earth and its ability to support
human life" is human dogma.

> An American team of Earthship builders who build the most radical form

(for some of the audience, the following is a generalization)[god, I
have to do that? I'm in the wrong newsgroup] Last I knew, Earthships
were big single family houses on big single family lots. The French
live in apartments.

> School children are coming in groups every week to learn
> about the sustainable systems

If it were _my_ propoganda you'd scream to high heaven. But since it's
yours, it's just the facts, m'am.

> of local news papers four times since it was started in late April,

Slow news day?
_local_ papers.
"Look, the press release writes the article itself!"

> All of this for trying to
> share methods of sustainable living with another country.

No, that's not what it's for. Are we talking stupid or liar here?

> will be compiled and anonomously presented in support of Michael
> Reynolds and Earthship Biotecture.

Why would I want to support criminals?

If they are anonymous, just write a little shell script to generate
them for you.

> For more information

Is that what kids are calling it these days?

> thanks!
>
> --
> Earthship Biotecture

Note the lack of a human.



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