ReWild Yourself: 20 Missions
INTRODUCTION:
Many people have become out of touch with nature on a daily basis. More than half of our population now live in cities where the presence of nature is severely diminished.
This lack of attention to the elements of earth that nurture humans is leading us to a dark place. ‘Re-wilding’ has become something of a catch phrase concerning our fate on the earth. It involves not just bringing more nature to the earth, like re-foresting, but also a conscious decision to make a place and a time for our own interactions with nature. We need to not just re-wild the land – we must also re-wild ourselves to become once more a part of nature.
Our political masters have reasons for enforcing the false realities of austerity. If you think there is not enough to go around, you are going to compete for what is left. Contact with nature puts an end to this manipulative lie as nature is utterly abundant, often generous and beneficent. All you have to do in return is care for it.
At a time when people want to increase their personal contact with nature it is becoming more-and-more difficult due to the encroachment of industrial objectives. In cities and towns noise and air, light, water pollution and interpersonal communication devices move people even further from nature.
Just 100 international companies are responsible for 70% of the fossil fuel pollution driving climate emergency, making anything we can do as individuals seem like tokenism. Even in the countryside its getting harder to find peace and quiet as the farmers are forced into positions of land-exploitation to make money. The face of nature untouched by the hand of man is nearly gone.
But nature wants you back. She wants you whole, not modified by the thousands of lies we tell ourselves to live in alleged ‘civilisation’. She has gainfully employed simonthescribe to give you 21 ways to get more nature in your life – wherever you live.
20 Missions 9a: Buckminster Fuller and the Law of Precession