Ethic 3 can be seen in various forms & combinations such as:Fair share; Sharing of Surplus; Setting limits to consumption; Setting limits to reproduction; Redistributing surplus...

So, Permaculture Ethic 2 ‘Care For People’, is for one thing, putting humans smack bang in the middle of the design process. So many towns & cities are designed for vehicles: how to get as many vehicles to their destination as quickly as possible, seems to be the main criteria for so much of what we have planned & implemented at a civic level over the last half a century or more.

Care for the Earth. The Earth is our home, with finite resources and a still-growing population.  This ethic states something that is very obvious, that we should take care of where we live, but which is so often overlooked or neglected.