Permaculture is a holistic design science evolved from a need for improved human settlements. Like any science, permaculture design reviews current methodologies and devises alternate strategies, based upon our current understandings, in an effort to improve the quality and efficiency of our environments. Permaculture addresses our needs for comfortable, healthy, clean and diverse environments that are essential to health and happiness. Permaculture benchmarks success through energy audits and the careful analysis of inputs and outputs related to a system.
We must come to a shared understanding that the Earth is not an unlimited resource, and with a growing population we need to transition towards reduced consumption at an individual level to secure the future of our children and their subsequent kin. Through careful conscious awareness of our behaviour and habits, we might gradually wean ourselves from current lifestyle trends that are leading towards possible extinction events, or at worst, needless personal suffering.