2004-03-01
In wilderness is preservation of the world | This is a picture of a small cabin I lived in for a couple of years | No running water or electricity | Heated with wood and a couple of miles from any public roads | To me, it was serene | A good retreat from urban culture and clutter (though sometimes I wonder if they aren't the same thing) yet it remained close enough to access all of that when I wanted to |
I don't really want to go back there | I like having at least a well as a watersource | Further, as you may discern by the fact that I am posting this online, I'm hardly a Luddite | But it also seems ludicrious to rely to the complex fragile system we know of as the grid to obtain electrical power | A combination of solar, wind or water generation seem perfectly acceptable to me | Furthermore, that seems to be in closer step with Nature than the concentrated accretion of population Earth's citizenry increasingly runs to |
Using our planet's resources in a manner that is sustainable done in such a way that there is some equity in sharing the planet's wealth is preferable the conditions under which we all live now | And I believe everyone would benefit from so living | ¶ 12:31
