<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydp499f2d1byiv8564847264"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Hello Empyre,<span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">I just wanted to pick up on Margaretha's mention of</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">permaculture, which I see as relating to the concept</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">of sustainability and, as Randall commented in relation</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">to that, to regenerativity. I read the link Joline sent</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">and feel like the work with kin is very important</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">in view of the disasters reated to failure to pay more</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">attention to caring for environmental issues. Perhaps</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">the threat of mass extinction of insects has already</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">been mentioned--anyway I'd like to note its presence</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">in the recent press. It has much to do, as Joline notes,</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB"> with /inability to recover diversity/ as Deborah Bird</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">Rose writes of it in /double (multiple) death/ terms.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">Below also is a link from a 2005 artice in National</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">Geographic dealing with insect extinction. Other</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">scholarly articles also came up in searches by this</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB">nonexpert.... Best wishes to all, William (link >>></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0920_050920_extinct_insects.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0920_050920_extinct_insects.html</a><br></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>
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