Not becoming part of the problem when trying to be part of the solution
This is interesting in more ways than Gunter Pauli intended. At 23:15 he claims to have learned the lesson of how collateral damage is unacceptable, the story about EcoVer he had told us about at 10:50. Then at 25:00 into the video, he talks about "Nature's MBA", "substitute something with nothing". But at 40:00, shaving our skin is apparently something that is not on the list of what could simply be eliminated, and instead he wants to replace the metal shaver blades with 100'000 tons of additional silk production, with the collateral damage of mass farming 250'000 hectares of mulberry trees (as opposed to regenerating the top soil of arid land with permaculture) and boiling 500'000'000'000 cocoons to death just before the adult moth is about to emerge. Collateral damage?
Has he learned his own lessons? Isn't that exactly "the type of compromises that isn't getting us forward"? "Ich habe es nicht gewusst"? It's a good illustration of how hard it is not to become part of the problem when trying to be part of the solution.
15.7.2011, 9:51