Debt Fiscal Crisis Brief -7-27-10

[Irongstone]

Protection and preservation of the land doesn't necessarily mean not using it. I thought the idea was to let people visit the areas and maybe even turn some of them into parks. Let's go back to our original motivation, like where CFB483 says "If I am living on this earth I am entitled to access to food and shelter...", and consider what are we each "entitled to". I would say we're each entitled to nothing more than a quiet place to exist with clean air, water, and soil, and some basic knowledge on obtaining food and shelter from that place. This does not include the right to alter the place in any non-trivial way such as with permanent structures or cement, invasive pests, obnoxious fumes, poison, noise, gmo's or other pollution, etc. Minimizing our footprint is what ecovillages are supposed to do.