Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. anarchy/permaculture. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the twenty-first century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.
This means reaching back in time to models that have proven successful for the last 300 hundred million years. When this is done it becomes possible to see plants as food, shelter, clothing, and sources of education and religion.

The process begins by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place. - plan, plant, planet