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We will hook-up with the local TT people but the Nomad-principle is applicable everywhere and should appeal to a mindset that is open to less literal more psychogeographically informed vision of what a city can look after the great ecological, population and resource crash. | We will hook-up with the local TT people but the Nomad-principle is applicable everywhere and should appeal to a mindset that is open to less literal more psychogeographically informed vision of what a city can look after the great ecological, population and resource crash. | ||
- | Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, | + | Nomadic people, contrary to popular misconception, |
- | TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. [[forest gardening]] is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates the skill and long term commitment to the land. An important part of gardening | + | TT Nomad cultivates metaphors not gardens, we add pressure to self-willed ecosystems no matter how small. [[forest gardening]] is perhaps a misleading term; gardening is a buzz word, a artistic fashion that underestimates the skill and long term commitment to the land. Gardening |
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+ | The rainforest, according to cliche, is the wildest of all possible wildernesses. But of course, being the end-stage of ecological succession, the rainforest is not the most wild but the most ordered and crystallized of all possible ecosystems, self-sustaining and self-perpeptuating: | ||
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+ | The Effects of deforestation (of the Amazon and all other (rain)forests that remain) are of direct consequence to every place on earth. Loss of biodiversity is tragic for many reasons but it is a local event, global warming however is a global event and deforestation is one of it's most important components. Not because the Amazon are the lungs of the world (a persistent myth, the Amazon is carbon neutral) but because deforestation releases a staggering amount of CO2: in 24 hours deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. The most amazing thing is about the speed of deforestation worldwide is that there are still rainforests at all. The rate of deforestation in Brazil has risen for at least the last decade. 2009, due to the economic low is the only exception. We are live, in a sense, in the Amazon, just as we all, in a sense, live on the North-Pole. Rain forest protection is not just about short-term benefits; rainforests are millions of years old, trees are strangers from a different world, and a clear cut area may take 10.000 years to regrow. And that is an optimistic estimate. | ||
- | The rainforest is the wildest of wildernesses. But of course, being the end-stage of ecological succession, the rainforest is not the most wild but the most ordered and crystallized of ecosystems: it appears wild because there is so much texture to its order that we mistake the trees for the forest. No land is allowed to the time to go from sandy soil to first forest (do-nothingness the antithesis of the western notion of growth - a divine purpose in need of its own form of atheism)textbook knowledge apart we are ignorant of one of the most fundamental properties of biology. | ||
- | The Effects of deforestation (of the Amazon and all other (rain)forests that remain) are of direct consequence to every place on earth. Loss of biodiversity is tragic for many reasons but it is a local event, global warming however is a global event and deforestation is one of it's most important components. Not because the Amazon are the lungs of the world (a persistent myth, the Amazon is carbon neutral) but because deforestation releases a staggering amount of CO2: in 24 hours deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. The most amazing thing is about the speed of deforestation worldwide is that there are still rainforests at all. The rate of deforestation in Brazil has risen for at least the last decade. 2009, due to the economic low is the only exception. We are all, in a sense, part of the Amazon. just as we are all part of the North-Pole. | ||
We have been reading about Colonel Fawcett' | We have been reading about Colonel Fawcett' | ||
Possessions slow the nomad down, anthropologists witnessed tribes slowing down from nomadism to village live in the space of a decade, a process due to the gravitational genus loci of commerce. To be part of a larger economy people need to be able to find you. However, as anthropologists joining tribes on their treks, the nomadic spectacle, the holidays of a former peripatetic people, they have so much more fun while on the road! And not just because it loosens up the relationships between the sexes. | Possessions slow the nomad down, anthropologists witnessed tribes slowing down from nomadism to village live in the space of a decade, a process due to the gravitational genus loci of commerce. To be part of a larger economy people need to be able to find you. However, as anthropologists joining tribes on their treks, the nomadic spectacle, the holidays of a former peripatetic people, they have so much more fun while on the road! And not just because it loosens up the relationships between the sexes. |