[Cob] cob and The Code

[Travis Miller]

It is pretty clear that in some places if you don't get a permit then  
people with guns and bulldozers are going to come and flatten your  
work.    It is great that some people are able to find places to  
build where that is not the case and should continue to do so.  If  
you choose to live in a place where this is not possible then maybe  
building with cob is simply not a viable solution to your building  
needs.

Does anyone really believe that the dominant culture is going to pay  
contractors to build cob houses? Does anyone think that contractors  
are willing to build cob buildings that are affordable to the masses?  
Does anyone think that Weyerhauser is going to let cob supplant  
plywood as a building material? Does anyone think that Home Depot's  
lobbyists are going to be OK with loosing billions of dollars?

I don't.  It is not a matter of education or information or  
lovingkindness.  It is about money and control.

Derrick Jensen asks his audiences if anyone in the room believes that  
the dominant culture will voluntarily change to a state of  
sustainable living. No one ever raises their hands.

Travis
wyrdbrew at gmail.com

It is axiomatic that we are in no way protected from the consequences  
of our actions by remaining confused about the ecological meaning of  
our humanness, ignorant of ecological processes, and unmindful of the  
ecological aspects of history.

William R. Catton, Jr