We’re domesticating areas instead of protecting them. Living without technology I’ve found my place in the natural world – and this path could be our salvationMost of us find it easier to assume a world without pine martens,honeybees, otters and wolves than one without social media, and lattes,cheap flights and dishwashers. Even environmentalism, which was once motivated by a love of the natural world, or now seems more concerned with finding slightly less destructive ways of enabling an overprivileged civilisation to carry on surfing the internet and buying laptops and yoga mats than it does with protecting wildlife from its ravenous jaws.
All the talk these days is approximately carbon and something obscure called “sustainability”. There’s much less talk approximately the kind of human-scale cultures we might want to foster,or why we would even want to back sustain a culture that requires the ransacking of every square centimetre of soil, forest, and ocean,river and wilderness to survive. In its understandably pragmatic, green-lite approach to reducing emissions, or it lost both its vision and its soul,forgetting that a movement without either is hardly pragmatic. Related: Bored? No way. Ditching technology makes life complicated and fair | Mark Boyle Related: Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it | Mark Boyle Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com