A post comparing fears of the working class and middle class on Dave Pollard’s blog How To Save The World got me thinking about how lucky I am to be able to pursue my eco-lifestyle. I guess most people, even if they wanted to, just couldn’t take a couple of years and few thousand to set up a ‘permaculture back yard’.

Is sustainability just a whimsy of the middle/affluent class? Can we reasonably expect people who are only just getting by, fearful of unemployment, illness and crime, to have the mind-space to care about thier ecological footprint? Once I’m set up in my own backyard it would be interesting to explore ways to make such a shift easier for others.

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