As we enter the new year 2013, the most prominent and compelling issue on my mind is climate change resulting from the ravages of corporate, industrial civilization. Married to that concern is my resolution to get as far away from this civilization as possible.
There are many reasons why I am choosing to become a refugee of our current civilization, reasons that have nothing to do with fear and everything to do with love. I love my children and I love their children, my grandchildren. Despite what I can see, and so often wish I could unsee, I still nurture a faint hope that they will be able to experience a fulfilling and happy life on this planet, even though it may not even remotely resemble my own experience, of the natural world. As a child I was still able to breathe in great gulps of fresh air, drink from streams, and didn't worry if there were poisons in my food.
Throughout this past year I deliberated whether or not it was worth staying in North America and fighting 'the beast' or if the time had come to go 'over the wall' for good. I have since realized that there is no more 'over the wall', there is nowhere left on this planet that isn't touched by and threatened by corporate capitalist industrialization, a system hell bent on extracting every last resource until Gaia herself is utterly destroyed. There is nowhere left to go. However, the system does have an edge, a periphery at the fringe where the possibility for minimal participation still exists. That is where I intend to go. To the fringe.
"Stewart has proposed that earlier bouts of climate change helped the many hominin species to evolve, by forcing them into isolated refuges where they evolved separately ..." (Science, doi.org/jcz).
http://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2012/09/23/tipping-points-for-runaway-climate-change-part-one/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GqE_QyEZg&feature=youtu.be
There are many reasons why I am choosing to become a refugee of our current civilization, reasons that have nothing to do with fear and everything to do with love. I love my children and I love their children, my grandchildren. Despite what I can see, and so often wish I could unsee, I still nurture a faint hope that they will be able to experience a fulfilling and happy life on this planet, even though it may not even remotely resemble my own experience, of the natural world. As a child I was still able to breathe in great gulps of fresh air, drink from streams, and didn't worry if there were poisons in my food.
Throughout this past year I deliberated whether or not it was worth staying in North America and fighting 'the beast' or if the time had come to go 'over the wall' for good. I have since realized that there is no more 'over the wall', there is nowhere left on this planet that isn't touched by and threatened by corporate capitalist industrialization, a system hell bent on extracting every last resource until Gaia herself is utterly destroyed. There is nowhere left to go. However, the system does have an edge, a periphery at the fringe where the possibility for minimal participation still exists. That is where I intend to go. To the fringe.
"Stewart has proposed that earlier bouts of climate change helped the many hominin species to evolve, by forcing them into isolated refuges where they evolved separately ..." (Science, doi.org/jcz).
http://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2012/09/23/tipping-points-for-runaway-climate-change-part-one/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GqE_QyEZg&feature=youtu.be