The Transition movement and its underlying big sister Permaculture (a design system based on
a set of truisms derived by observing the natural world), is a sometimes - stern, sometimes - playful, highly flexible and creative reminder of the way things work on this planet.
Not exact matches
And it is a
truism, but an accurate one, to say that Germany's problems were that it was (for that reason) too late unified, had great difficulty determining whether it was an eastern or western - facing country, and that whenever it
set out to assure its own security, it disturbed the security
of its neighbours.
With the scene now
set, let's turn to getting some obvious but important
truisms out
of the way.