It is with a Declaration of Devolution establishing independence from the Neo-Feudal Lords of Capital, that a community of 21st Century humans begins the process of building a social and political order which provides for all future generations a sustainable bio-diverse GAIA in complete harmonic relationships. I believe that such a world is possible and indeed probable. There are two central components that would be necessary for the development of communities within which this guiding ethos could blossom and flourish. First and foremost, each bio-region must be recognized as the source of life and creation upon which communities are structured. And second, the communities in each bio-region must become self-sustaining in and of themselves, losing the impetus to provide sustenance for a lifestyle requiring trade and economic exchanges.
In essence, the bridges across bio-regional boundaries must be destroyed in order that the communities that intend to continue to survive, within a specific region, can embrace the overwhelming task of downscaling lifestyles to a sustainable level within a bio-region. Desert regions for example, require sophisticated awareness’ of sharing precious life-sustaining resources between communities of biomes. It would not so much be an abandonment of technologies developed by and for the sole use of humans, as much as it would be a reprioritization of those technologies that would be empowered through long term use of local bio-regional resources, as in a desert without great water supplies. Desert based self-sustaining communities, scattered across GAIAN landscapes that are bereft of sufficient water supplies due to Global Warming, could provide tremendous opportunity for surprising large human populations.
Combining the technological applications created around the globe for living sustainably and appropriately in deserts--applications such as: solar energy, underground housing, short season crops, elaborate agricultural forms employing dew/fog moisture collection and distribution systems, wind power, protein enriched foods from insect species, etc.--opens incredible opportunities for future generations to augment and develop ever more sophisticated patterns. Educational environments within these communities would become, through necessity, creative dynamic laboratories for cultural enhancement and harmonious developments.
Likewise, riparian bio-regions would form logically delineated boundaries for communities who in most ways would be dependent upon the riparian habitats for sustainable life sources. I can easily foresee a 21st Century which embraces the secrets of the Mississippian and Tennessean Mound Builders as models for sustainable communities that relate to specific river bio-regions. Large social groupings living on raised mounds, surrounded by copious bottom lands allowed to be resilted seasonally when the up-river dam projects are removed, would recreate a river based sustainable culture. Flood plains would of course provide excellent resource enhancement opportunities, but would manifestly be clear of residential and other important structures and vocations.
As bio-regional sustainable communities developed along the riparian realms, more and more efforts would be made to share the responsibility of maintaining the integrity and purity of the water. In exchange for downstream based commodities such as larger species of both fish and grain, up-stream communities would work diligently to insure maximum water quality standards. This would of course restrict the common practices of mining and logging, and other damaging activities that have required all of us to redirect our visions of the future.
The interesting thing about this view is that no matter what happens between now and then, the same results will occur. The eventual development of bio-regionally oriented sustainable communities will come to fruition out of both wise and harmonious intent as well as from the impending collapse and chaos of neo-feudal capitalism . Whether it is global warming that dramatically alters human survivability; or if it is the horrendous economic programs designed to selectively enhance a very few lives at the expense of the millions; or if it is the stupidity of war and toxification of the planet;--it doesn’t really much matter. The only viable behavior for continued posterity of human generations will be within the formation of sustainable downscaled communities intellectually engineered to utilize the bio-region in its most efficient and cooperative form. My desire, my goal is for this transformation of the human being to occur through education that specifically encourages the children to make the change without the impending necessity.
In some ways this is tautological, in that since the change will occur anyway, it would be detrimental to reverse the expansion of standards of living and free expression of the maximum potential of human freedom from tyrannical possession. I find this position indefensible. Although it reeks of Ayn Rand’s Gingrichian formulas for government’s limited action, even the conservative Christian must admit that they already possess an agenda which is in many ways advocating the very same process for their own people.
But here i must reiterate that the children are the decision makers, not we the old and in the way. We will never have to live within these devoluted environments. We can only encourage the children to connect to one another in the most intense and real of ways, in order that they may find the common bonds that are manifest through tribal affiliations and clan relations. While Christianity may seem to ascribe some tribal relation for groups of individual families, it has only in its most mystical form been successful. Monastic, Shaker, Mormon, Amish, Moravian--these communities, sustaining and sustainable are the role models for Christians. Likewise, differing tribal affiliations have been modeled over GAIAN history--sects, clans, associations, of Buddhists, Moslems, Hindus, Jews, etc.,--all these and thousands more carry the bio-germ/mind-virus/meme of harmonic relations among members of intentional communities. Human history is literally overflowing with right and judicious actions that combine the best of technologies with the most reverent of sustainable, bio-diverse, bio-regional behaviors. It is within these communities that the tools, the visceral ideas of creative reconstruction, of our desire to find GAIA once again filled with vibrant complex lifeforms in plenitude, are resting. The names of these tools are rituals and litanies and dances and arts. It is here that we must start our journey towards reeducating our children.
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