i got this meme from @internetsavedme2 on instagram

  • @M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21•2 years ago

    I get that life is safer, cleaner, and more comfortable for almost everyone on earth.

    But, I wish I could decide to spend a few months not working and living in the mountains or jungle without any serious work or financial repercussions.

    My wife and I are at a place where we have a long term plan to save and buy land away from the city.

    I can’t wait until I’m out in the country side and and can go outside to nature rather than concrete.

    • DeGandalf
      10•2 years ago

      without any serious work

      this part sadly only works, if you’ve already worked your ass off beforehand.

      • @RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
        3•2 years ago

        That’s kind of the point, though. The fact that you can’t just…live in the world without participating in a destructive and exploitative economic system first is disgusting and immeasurably immoral and unethical.

    • @spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      That’s exactly right… For now.

      But if there’s coal in that mountain, we can level the whole thing like they do in West Virginia and leave a nice flat spot for an industrial park when we’re done.

    • defunct_punk
      1•2 years ago

      Precisely. Entirely too rough of terrain.

      What this place really needs is some nice rental properties. Pave some roads going all over the mountains and boom, easy $500/night

  • @lntl@lemmy.ml
    9•2 years ago

    nah, more like:

    imagine an open pit mine here 😍

    maybe mountaintop removal?

  • @LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works
    8•2 years ago

    Urf, one of the candidates for mayor of the region where I live said that if they won they’d make an industrial park to encourage jobs … a third of the municipality is a nature reserve, half of it is a literal mountain, and the remainder is small farms. There are no roads big enough for a full size lorry, and there’s a large industrial estate in the valley below which provides lots of jobs.

    It just made me wonder if they were that corrupt or simply on drugs.

  • @dan1101@lemm.ee
    5•2 years ago

    Developers/board members/politicians. It always has to be growth with them until everywhere is the same suburban hell.

  • @Adalast@lemmy.world
    5•2 years ago

    I get the point, but I am also obsessed with automation games, so you it says that and I’m like “oh, I can put the hub over there, and a tower on that mountain so I can get a good look at the factory in the valley. Oh, and I hope there is a good water source over around that bend I can put oil there.”

    There may be something wrong with me.

  • Phoenixz
    4•2 years ago

    Colonialists? You mean “locals” don’t have either needs for industries that support human life, or just plain assholes that’ll needlessly destroy nature for profit?

  • Marxism-FennekinismEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    William Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness” should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in conservation or environmental science. It’s a great critique of how colonialism has tainted our understanding of what “wilderness” and nature in general is and humanity’s role in them.

    More info: https://blogs.ubc.ca/greenbeansbigdreams/2016/09/10/the-trouble-with-wilderness-a-critique-of-modern-environmentalism-by-william-cronon/

    Read it here: https://faculty.washington.edu/timbillo/Readings and documents/Wilderness/Cronon The trouble with Wilderness.pdf