Now can we focus on alternatives like cannabis for biofuel?
Now can we focus on alternatives like cannabis for biofuel?
If the government were to make alcohol illegal again like the 20’s, i think the people would riot and revolt as they need their elixir to cope with the illusion they are drowned in. They need to drown away their sorrows and continue you on ignoring their shackles. They get intoxicated to alcohol to blue their perception of reality. But people stay quiet and won’t say shit about cannabis. I mean here we have a plant that is safer than alcohol, a plant that is beneficial to all. A plant for the mind, body and soul. A plant that can be used to produce for ourselves be it by way of making paper, fabrics etc. using cannabis hemp, yet we have millions of innocent people going to jail for planting NATURE and yet here we are silent about it.
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
― Bob Marley
Well they deserve to be locked up for over 10 years, they should have just listened to the government, right. Since they give a fuck about our well being so much, meanwhile we have cigarette smokers dying at a young age, as they destroy the planet with their litter. We have people drinking and driving causing thousands of deaths a year and thousands of people overdosing from bullshit pharmaceuticals. We are not the criminals. The government are the ones who are the criminal for their crime against humanity. No one should be locked up in a cage for their natural rights to medicine, to spirituality and to a connection to nature and the universe. It is our body and no one has any right to say what we can and cannot put into our bodies and certainly not be jailed for our own free will. So for those who argue against it, ask yourself who the fuck are you to tell us what we can and cannot put in our bodies. You have your “drug” of choice and i also have my choice and no one will take that away from me.
People would say it is addicting, little do they know caffeine is more addicting then cannabis will ever be, which is why every one consumes more than one cup of soda or coffee a day. Why some people can’t go on with their day without their cup of coffee in the morning. I can go weeks and months, hell even years without cannabis and look no withdrawal. People have a misconception that we need it to live, wrong. We choose to smoke because for some of us it is spiritual, for most of us it broadens our horizon and our creativity. We smoke to set our minds free and to get lost in our own consciousness, to see the world through another perspective. To enhance our perception of reality. We don’t smoke for laughs and giggles, although who is to say laughing is bad or being happy for that matter. Most of us don’t have a dependency on it., those that do are weak in the mind and would cling on to anything on front of them, but that is not the fault of cannabis, that is on the person. Those are the ones who branch off to harder drugs such as cocaine, again it’s not the fault of cannabis, but of the person. There are many benefits the benefits outweigh anything negative you can say about it.
“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
They have us living in fear. Follow the fucking line, stay on your fucking lane and do as you are fucking told.. Or else they will throw you in a cage as they coerce and intimidate you with the long arm of the bullshit law. Even if the laws are unjust, you must obey and we go on willingly allowing them to constrain our NATURAL rights as time goes by. They are the one’s who create the criminals with their blind justice. We live and die on our knees while we beg for our rights, while they look down at us as mere peasants. To truly be free, we must not beg for our Natural rights, but take it, for a person who is truly free, should never ask permission for what is NATURALLY Theirs and that is something the government can’t deny or take away and we just let them.
“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?”
― Bill Hicks
For every nonsmoker, there are as many nonsmokers. We must come out of the proverbial closet. We must stand up for this outrageous crime to humanity. This whole shit started out with racial motives and all the bullshit they spewed in behalf of corporate interest back in the 30’s and here we are still yet naive and gullible to believe the bullshit they spewed. If you think we should be locked up for what is all man’s right. Then you should be locked up from drinking caffeinated beverages such as soda and coffee, cause if you don’t know, caffeine is a drug! You should be locked up for taking aspirins. Oh but that you can’t grow, so it’s OK for you to consume. Maybe you should go to jail for smoking cigarettes which does more harm than cannabis could ever do. You should be locked up for drinking alcohol. It’s time we stop asking for permission, while we look away from the innocent brothers and sisters locked up in a cage. Time to stop ignoring it’s benefits until someone close to us get’s sick for us to become vocal about it. The time is NOW! We must empower ourselves, educate ourselves and educate others. We need to educate ourselves further and not the nonsensical bullshit you hear on TV. Cannabis can truly save the planet but we re just delaying the inevitable. Time to say enough and fuck your bullshit laws. stop following the herd off the cliff and REBEL against the injustices they have bestowed upon us.
Here is a couple of quotes from the dude who started the campaign against cannabis.
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others”.
“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death”.
And for my bible thumpers, i leave you with this quote from some old ass book that you follow and swear by…
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
, – Genesis 1:29 Holy Bible: King James Version
Cannabis is the herb!
I am currently in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, which is a “U.S. Territory”, a commonwealth. Which means it is a self-governing unit voluntarily grouped with the US. This post will be directed to Puerto Rico as it is a prime example of the current system being employed and can also be applied to all parts of the world since it has to do with capitalism and how it affects the economy.
The Future And Economy of Puerto Rico and of the world is in bad shape and in this post we will look at why, even in the US, Detroit being a great example and speaking of Detroit, this island is heading towards that direction and I believe the people must collectively steer the ship in another direction. So let’s dive into the economy of this island.
The land and food
This island has a rich history in growing coffee, pineapples, sugarcane. and tobacco. This island is rich with fertile soil and warm tropical weather year round. perfect for growing an abundance of food. But it is staggering to find that 85 percent of the food is imported. So much land that goes unused here to have that much imported. So what we have is food filled with pesticides and chemicals with a deterioration of nutrition being imported here.
On average, food products imported from the mainland U.S.—the island’s main food supplier—travel 2,800 miles from the source of production to the dinner table. At the very least, they must spend three days at sea. Products coming from China, the second major food supplier, travel some 9,500 miles, a nearly month-long voyage. The transportation of food cargo costs at least $300 million a year.
What cause does this have with the islands bad economy. Well very simple, I don’t need to have a major in economics to figure this one out. We are buying imported goods from other countries thus the money goes out and never stays in. We have all this unused land going to waste because the people have forgotten their roots and their connection to the earth.
The people have become dependent on getting hand outs from the government by the means of food stamps, thus they go on purchasing the imported food, hence, you have the dwindling down of the economy. I think the mentality is why grow food when they can give you a magic card that gets you that food. If the people would empower themselves and grew their own food, that would be the start of regaining independence. Instead of importing, they should be exporting.
Corporations
But let’s go further shall we and get further to the root of the problems of their economy and as I said the economy we face with all over the world. The towns known as pueblos here that once flourished and thrived with small locally own businesses, now has turned into a ghost town thanks to the emergence of large corporations such as Walmart and the such, with many fast food places all over the place. As many as three McDonald’s per small towns. The same applies to the imported food. People are purchasing imported goods from these large corporations who pay their workers a pittance for their labor.
Again, what we have is all the money being imported out. Just a little money left over to pay the people who then use what money they have left to purchase from these same corporations that keep the money out and so we struggle further with debt and struggle to live as we continue to plummet in unemployment. Therefore leading to poverty and in turn leads into a high crime rate which is what this island has and what many impoverished countries are facing even in the USA, all thanks to capitalism as people will do anything to survive, even if that means robbing and murdering their own grandmothers as they go on trying to chase the “american dream”. Of course, corrupt governments come into play with all of this as well.
Capitalism
Let’s call this system what it truly is and that is Corporatism. The system we have is downright bullshit and it was built for the rich to maintain their status and for the poor to be slaves. We have become slaves to corporations and to the government which is a corporation in itself. We are now on the totem pole, struggling to provide for our families because we are busy propping the rich up above us. We are making the richer rich, while the poor continues to deteriorate.
They have built empires under our labor, while we continue to build piles of debt and go no where. While they keep feeding us the same old line that if you truly work hard enough, you can get out of that hole that we have dug ourselves into and join them in prosperity. This system is a parasite leaching off the poor with the rich benefiting from it, as we see this in this island and around the world and so now we have a dependency on a corrupt government who only favors corporations that they are in bed with, not realizing the government is a corporation themselves.
At one time here in Puerto Rico, you had US corporations buy large amounts of land in order to grow what was Puerto Rico’s backbone of the economy, sugarcane. They would pay off their workers, who were the natives of this land, a measly wage while these corporations made millions by exporting the sugarcane.
We see a similar trend now with all these corporations making millions off the work of the minimally paid workers, but let’s call them for what they really are, wage slaves.
We must stop supporting these corporations and stop supporting the corrupt government. We must take back the power they have derived from us and empower ourselves to move forward. Here I wrote why cannabis hemp could be Puerto Rico’s new sugar cane. But I think it is the people from the island who should be in control of the land and it’s products produced by hemp, not an outside entity.
Entrepreneurship
I strongly believe we must do what we love. We must take the initiative to start controlling our fate and our world. It all starts with producing for ourselves. Starts with growing your own food, starts with supporting your locally owned businesses. I think this world needs more entrepreneurship, which is what most of us want but don’t have the capital for it as they continue to bleed us out.
They impose licenses and taxes for many things to start your own small business and I believe that is bullshit. This is how they have enslaved us. You either have sufficient capital, I.E. be rich enough or saving your money through out the years which is becoming harder by the day or you are poor and must work now for the capitalist which goes back to the system of “capitalism”. That to me is the problem we are facing in this economy. Let’s free ourselves from the shackles. We have participated in this farce long enough. We must obtain our freedom back. We must get our true independence back.
Going back to the ghost town and all those empty stores collecting dust. Why are they collecting dust. They remain relics, just ruins rotting in time. When just like the massive abandoned houses and land, we could take it and build something better. It all starts with the people and us taking back control.
Independence and statehood
This island, being a commonwealth could vote for statehood or independence, which has the island split with different political affiliations. Those who believe in statehood, believe the government of the USA will come and fix this island and create new jobs. Little do they realize that the government of the USA would do everything it can to exploit the island and ensure they raise the taxes even higher creating a gentrification of the poor, even under the current government. That is what we are currently seeing as many flee for greener pastures to the US.
As for those who believe in independence think that they can be free from the united states and be known as an independent country as they want to vote for a man to lead the island as their president as they currently just have a governor running the island.
But little do they realize, you never know what type of leader you get in that case. You might get a dictator who can make things worse. People always seek for a leader to come lead them and take responsibility for how they live their lives, when they should start leading themselves. Then you have those who want the island to remain and get the best of both worlds, sort of.
So what do I think would be best for this island and pretty much the world.
Transcend politics
As of July 13th 2019, I have revised this post, originally I proposed Anarchism, I wrote a blog entitled what anarchy means to me which can be read by clicking here, where I elaborate on what anarchism to me is. But my perspective now is that I don’t feel the people here or anywhere for that matter are responsible enough for that.
However, I still feel that the people need to start taking that responsibility and Free themselves from the dependence of the governments. Build a sustainable world as I wrote in visions of a sustainable future. We must be the change and spread the change. The land is the foundation and is something we need to take back.
On this island and the whole world in general I still feel Independence is the right course. I believe the people should take responsibility cultivating a different mindset that they can continue to grow and pass on to the future generations. Join each other in solidarity to lead their own lives and produce for ourselves. Sollidarity is another component strongly missing.
I still feel that we don’t need a government who only is out for their own benefits as they enslave and oppress the people. We think we need them as that is all we know. but to be truly fruitful world we must obtain our independence in order to have true freedom and to have a prosperous economy.
Time to evolve from this artificial prison they have put us in. Every 4 years we vote for someone else thinking it will change something. All it leads to is minor reforms and we don’t need that. What we need is a radical change in the way we think and how we view each other and this paradigm.We don’t need them, the very few and powerful who just exploit us. We need each other!
I think if we need a government, it has to be a government for the people, not for the corporations. We need people in charge who truly give a damn about change. Not with filling their pockets. I think we need more communities and community leaders just like tribes and the tribe chief. There has to be a better way, which is why we need new ideas and perspectives.
Cannabis and producing
As I mentioned before, I truly believe Cannabis Hemp could be the key to a sustainable future. I believe can produce for each other with this wonderful plant. we can build homes, clothes, it can be our medicine. It can provide everything. It was called the billion dollar crop and I think we can surely do so much with this land here. Going back to what I was saying about the land, I feel that this island should take the opportunity to cherish all this valuable land so we can all thrive together.
In conclusion
People think we would have a mad max type of world with no government, but that is exactly what we have with the government. We are running around like savages as they made this into a dog eat dog world. It’s all about competition with each other. A new world is possible, we just have to open our minds and our arms to embrace new ideas.
We must stop supporting these large corporations, we must take control of our lives and in the direction in which we are going and stop with the worshiping of political so-called leader. We must shift our consciousness now.
Ultimately, we are responsible for the economy. You alone decide the fate on how you choose to go on with it. We must stop allowing ourselves to be exploited by the corporations and the government. Now is the time to assume responsibility, so that future generations won’t find themselves deeper in the hole that we have dug.
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We incarcerate innocent people for choosing to have the right to put what they want in their bodies. Incredible, for something that grows naturally, innocent people get put in a cage like an animal for it. All that does is create criminals, they come out robbing people and resort to other crimes because this system has fucked up their lives and they just don’t know anything else. The sad part is that it’s OK for you ignorant people to have innocent people jailed. No outcries, nothing. We just turn a blind eye towards it just like everything else. Then you wonder why this world is so fucked. Why the crime rate is high. They jail us so they can keep making a fucking profit. Prisons are big business, which is why they are overpopulated in America. We are just a commodity.
The government and the corrupt parasites called politicians, another entity that just cares about a profit. Who are the main culprit as to why cannabis is illegal. they are all bought by corporations from pharmaceuticals to timber companies who would lose profits. The government wants to make up a bullshit medicinal license and find ways to tax a plant which is ridiculous but we all buy into it because we fear them and it’s the only way for us to get it legitimately without the chance of facing incarceration. When the fact of the matter is we don’t need their permission for something that grows naturally, for something that was never theirs to take away. They want to us obey and be good citizens and not think or produce for ourselves, they want us dependent on them and corporations.
The suppression of cannabis needs to end. People need to start researching something beneficial to all of mankind and this planet not only speaking of “marijuana” but of hemp, which many people in this island and around the world are impervious to. People sit there drinking their beers, smoking their cigarettes (both of which is more harmful to our bodies and to our way of living than Cannabis) saying nothing but negative things about cannabis acting like they above cannabis smokers, when they don’t realize how much of hypocrites they are. The addiction rate of both tobacco and alcohol along with caffeine are much higher than any addiction to cannabis which is very little to none at all. Addiction is more probable to those who are feeble-minded as with anything else. The top 2 killers are alcohol and tobacco, people even overdose with caffeine, yet no one has ever died with cannabis. It has done more good than any inadequacies associated with it.
Another suppression we have with cannabis are closet smokers who want to hide the fact that they smoke. They hide it from their children and their loved ones again for fear of reclusion. When they should be educating them on the facts of cannabis, but how can some of these closes smokers educate others when they can’t even educate themselves. Most of these closet smokers just smoke for the fuck of it Going back to my previous post on cannabis, it all starts with education as education is the key to unlocking our minds from the bullshit they have bestowed upon it. As i said in that post, these closet smokers are just as ignorant and just as a hypocrite as those who fight against cannabis as they drink their poison alcohol in front of their loved ones but don’t have the audacity to smoke in front of them.
The ignorant hypocrites just think of themselves. They have their “drug of choice” and we should have ours. Although to me it is not a drug, but a way of life, a way of expression, a way of creativity. It is spiritual, it’s medicine. It is so much more. Cannabis equals peace, love and freedom.It is not all about smoking. I strongly believe it is the key to a sustainable future as we can produce so many things from paper to bio-fuel with it. Just research and know the true benefits to this wonderful plant.
In closing i would like ask a question to the ones against cannabis reading this. If your children were dying and cannabis was one viable option to save them, would you give them to it. As there have been cases where children with dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy were given cannabis and were treated successfully with cannabis. Or will you let them die on front of your very eyes. If you answered yes you would give it to them, then would it not make sense to fight for this plant now so that others don’t have to suffer. If you yourself or a loved one gets an ailment of some kind that cannabis can be useful for, would it not make sense to have it readily available rather than going to a state with a medicinal bullshit license or not having it at all because your state does not approve of it.
We have to overgrow the government and take the control they took from us and say we won’t fear you. They can’t arrest us all as they need us as we are the ones who keep the gears turning. Time to overgrow the world! Time to liberate cannabis! Below are some videos in which you can gather up more information on cannabis and educate yourselves further.
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“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever envisioned a better world? a more sustainable future? One where we live from the land by growing our own foods, have our own renewable energy and in this post I go on further with a wonderful gallery down below of Earthen homes.
I envision living in harmony and balance with nature and each other. There is a wonderful documentary about this topic called a simpler way, which can be found here.
I, like many have awoken to envisioning a better world, a sustainable future, a new world that grows in our hearts. One where we grow many key elements such as compassion, empathy, love. I bettered myself and continue to grow these values in myself as I rediscovered myself, as I wrote here How I found my true self in nature.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
― Henry David Thoreau
Yeah, I know many are thinking that this is a hippie’s dream but I believe we have a failed system that is not sustainable and it’s is going to require deep and radical changes in the way we think of ourselves and the way we live our lives with one another and the planet and to release this indoctrinated institutionalized mindset we have conformed to.
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
-Aldo Leopold
Another element missing is community. I think organizing and helping one another to create something sustainable is a key factor. Helping, sharing and caring for one another is something that has been lost in what we call civilization.
We must think for ourselves and take the steps to free ourselves for the better good. We can’t keep going down this rabbit hole, living in this illusion that we have conformed to. This is the generation that must take the steps for a better generation moving forward.
Many people around the world have awoken to wanting a more sustainable simpler self-sustaining life, growing their own foods and living off the grid in a tiny home.(Click here for documentary on tiny homes) .
I share that same sentiment as a practitioner of permaculture principles, I want to create a beautiful forest of food of many different tropical fruit trees from all over the world and grow flowers for the wildlife as I would like to create a wildlife sanctuary where birds can find a home in peace and to protect various other species.
Nothing more peaceful and delightful than sitting by plants and watching the bees, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and other wonderful creatures enjoying the abundance of food around while we also enjoy the food and the vibrancy of the beautiful flowers surrounding us.
Ideally I would also like to have natural swimming pools and create a habitat for other wildlife such as frogs and dragon flies. Create a symbiotic relation and gain a connection back to Gaia (Mother Earth).
Connection! I think it is another missing element. Connecting back to the land as we have been so disconnected from this beautiful world and you will find me stating this many times on my website, but I believe that in losing that connection to the Earth that we have lost connection to each other.
We longer have connection to the food we eat as we have settled for imported chemically laced foods and processed food. I always say when you grow your food, you grow it with love. When you prepare your meal with the food you have grown, you make it with love and when you eat it, you taste that love. All a connection, just like we are all connected but see each other as separate not realizing that separation only exists in the mind.
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.”
Terrance Mckenna
About 5 years ago I first encountered my first picture of an Earthen building and that was a cob structure and that is something I would to build as well as a cob oven.
A Cob house and oven is made from clay, sand and straw that come together to build a thick structure where you build the homes with your very hands and this is having community comes into play as work together as a community to build the home, not only creating a bond with the community but having a connection with your very own home. You build it how you like with the creativity and the power of the mind.
Over the years I have been more interested in other structures as I would now like to live on a bamboo tree house. Up on a tree enjoying some mangos. Yummy!
We could also build straw bale homes as well as build a homes from cannabis hemp as it is stronger than concrete known as hemcrete, which has a low carbon footprint and I believe Cannabis Hemp is the key to a sustainable future, where we could make our own bio-fuel, clothes stronger than cotton The list goes on as to the potential it truly has especially here in Puerto Rico. You can read more on why I think Cannabis hemp could be the new sugar cane for Puerto Rico.
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
― Edward O. Wilson
I would love to also have a retreat and how to live in a sustainable way, Build a model that will inspire others around to do the same because too many people are dependent on this failed system we currently have. I would love to see communities within communities growing and all sharing the abundance of food with each other. We need to start producing for each other and share with each other by way of barter or other means.
“Reducing our levels of consumption will not be a sacrifice but a bonus if we simply redefine the meaning of the word ‘success.’”
– David Wann
If we keep living this life of materialism and consumerism, we will keep destroying this planet as well as each other. We should strive to live off from the earth as the good earth can provide for us all.
We need a world of caring and sharing. Not of greed and envy. I believe land should be shared among the world as no one really owns the earth. But others don’t see it that way as everything in this world is just a commodity. I proposed in this blog posting entitled Donate land for those who want to grow food which can be seen by clicking here.
“Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”
Henry David Thoreau
We are the solution to the problem that they have bestowed upon us. No way of living will ever be perfect and even though it this sounds Utopian, I believe it is far from it as we can choose to live a better life or at least try to, rather than how we currently live in as we live a life enslaved to debt.
“What is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on?”
– Henry David Thoreau
Many would say that I want to go back to the way it was before, back in the day. But they fail to see, that it is not about going back. It is about regaining our connection to the earth that we lost.
We lost our ways. People might think we progressed but in reality we regressed. We now have become dependent on corporations and governments to do things for us.
We no longer provide for ourselves. We took the foundation and gave it to them and we now have no leg to stand on. So we are not going back, we would essentially be moving forward.
“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don’t, people with guns come and force us to pay. That’s violent.”
― Derrick Jensen
Again my vision is shared by many and there are many Eco village communities out there and they’re are multiplying, each with a different idea and a different vision.
That’s the beauty of thoughts and ideas and something we desperately need in this world more of. Free the mind from the constraints and think about solutions to move the world forward.
Many would see the cob house or this type of living as living in poverty because all they see is money as richness and having the big fancy house with the nice car in this world of endless competition with each other.
The only richness we need is each other and this beautiful world around us. We must stop being slaves to wages and slaves to debt, stop being dependent on corporations and governments. Let us unify and be one, in solidarity. We must regain our freedom. Our true freedom.
Do you have a new world in your heart? Do you think the world is alright as it is with its continual exploitation of the land and the people? Do you think we could change this world for the better? I would like to hear from you.
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“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
¿Alguna vez has imaginado un mundo mejor? ¿Un futuro más sostenible? Uno donde vivimos de la tierra cultivando nuestros propios alimentos, tenemos nuestra propia energía renovable y en este post voy más allá con una maravillosa galería abajo de los casas hecho de la Tierra.
Imagino vivir en armonía y equilibrio con la naturaleza y con los demás. Hay un maravilloso documental sobre este tema llamado una forma más simple, que se puede encontrar aquí.
Yo, como muchos, he despertado a imaginar un mundo mejor, un futuro sostenible, un mundo nuevo que crece en nuestros corazones. Uno donde crecemos muchos elementos clave como la compasión, la empatía, el amor. Me mejoré y continúo creciendo estos valores en mí mismo mientras me redescubrí, como escribí aquí Cómo encontré mi verdadero ser en la naturaleza.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
― Henry David Thoreau
Sí, sé que muchos piensan que esto es el sueño de un hippie, pero creo que tenemos un sistema fallido que no es sostenible y requerirá cambios profundos y radicales en la forma en que pensamos de nosotros mismos y en la forma en que vivimos nuestras vidas. unos a otros y al planeta y para liberar esta mentalidad institucionalizada adoctrinada a la que nos hemos conformado.
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
-Aldo Leopold
Otro elemento que falta es la comunidad. Creo que organizarse y ayudarse mutuamente para crear algo sostenible es un factor clave. Ayudar, compartir y cuidar unos de otros es algo que se ha perdido en lo que llamamos civilización.
Debemos pensar por nosotros mismos y dar los pasos para liberarnos para el bien. No podemos seguir bajando por este agujero de conejo, viviendo en esta ilusión a la que nos hemos conformado. Esta es la generación que debe dar los pasos para una mejor generación en el futuro.
Muchas personas en todo el mundo han despertado a querer una vida más sustentable, autosuficiente, más autosuficiente, cultivando sus propios alimentos y viviendo fuera de la red en una casa pequeña (haga clic aquí para ver el documental sobre casas pequeñas).
Comparto ese mismo sentimiento como practicante de los principios de permacultura, quiero crear un hermoso bosque de alimentos con diferentes árboles frutales tropicales de todo el mundo y cultivar flores para la vida silvestre, ya que me gustaría crear un santuario de vida silvestre donde las aves puedan Encuentra un hogar en paz y para proteger a otras especies.
Nada más pacífico y encantador que sentarse junto a las plantas y observar abejas, pájaros, mariposas, libélulas y otras criaturas maravillosas disfrutando de la abundancia de comida mientras que también disfrutamos de la comida y la vitalidad de las hermosas flores que nos rodean.
Idealmente, también me gustaría tener piscinas naturales y crear un hábitat para otras especies silvestres como ranas y libélulas. Crea una relación simbiótica y vuelve a obtener una conexión con Gaia (Madre Tierra).
¡Conexión! Creo que es otro elemento que falta. Conectándonos de nuevo a la tierra, ya que hemos estado tan desconectados de este hermoso mundo y me encontrarán diciendo esto muchas veces en mi sitio web, pero creo que al perder esa conexión con la Tierra, hemos perdido la conexión entre nosotros.
Ya no tenemos conexión con los alimentos que comemos, ya que nos hemos conformado con los alimentos procesados y químicamente preparados. Siempre digo que cuando cultivas tu comida, la cultivas con amor. Cuando preparas tu comida con la comida que has cultivado, la haces con amor y cuando la comes, saboreas ese amor. Toda una conexión, al igual que todos estamos conectados, pero nos vemos como separados, sin darnos cuenta de que la separación solo existe en la mente.
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.”
Terrance Mckenna
Hace aproximadamente 5 años, encontré por primera vez mi primera imagen de un edificio de Tierra y esa era una estructura de cob o barro, y eso es algo que me gustaría construir, así como un horno de barro.
Una casa y horno de barro están hechos de arcilla, arena y paja que se unen para construir una estructura gruesa donde se construyen las casas con sus propias manos y aquí es donde la comunidad entra como un trabajo conjunto como comunidad para construir la casa, no solo creando un vínculo con la comunidad pero teniendo una conexión con su propio hogar. Lo construyes como quieras con la creatividad y el poder de la mente.
A lo largo de los años he estado más interesado en otras estructuras, ya que ahora me gustaría vivir en una casa de bambú. Arriba en un árbol disfrutando de unos mangos. ¡Sabroso!
También podríamos construir casas de balas de paja, así como construir casas con cannabis cáñamo, ya que es más fuerte que el concreto conocido como hemcreta, que tiene una baja huella de carbono y creo que el cáñamo Cannabis es la clave para un futuro sostenible, donde podríamos hacer nuestra propio combustible biológico, ropa más resistente que el algodón La lista continúa en cuanto al potencial que tiene, especialmente en Puerto Rico. Puedes leer más sobre por qué creo que el cáñamo Cannabis podría ser la nueva caña de azúcar para Puerto Rico.
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
― Edward O. Wilson
Me encantaría tener también un retiro sobre cómo vivir de una manera sostenible. Cree un modelo que inspire a los demás a hacer lo mismo porque muchas personas dependen de este sistema fallido que tenemos actualmente. Me encantaría ver cómo crecen las comunidades dentro de las comunidades y que todos compartan la abundancia de alimentos entre sí. Necesitamos comenzar a producir para los demás y compartir entre nosotros por medio de trueque u otros medios.
“Reducing our levels of consumption will not be a sacrifice but a bonus if we simply redefine the meaning of the word ‘success.’”
– David Wann
Si seguimos viviendo esta vida de materialismo y consumismo, seguiremos destruyendo este planeta y los unos con los otros. Debemos esforzarnos por vivir de la tierra como la buena tierra puede proporcionarnos a todos.
Necesitamos un mundo de cariño y compartir. No de codicia y envidia. Creo que la tierra debe ser compartida entre el mundo como nadie realmente posee la tierra. Pero otros no lo ven de esa manera ya que todo en este mundo es solo una mercancía. Propuse en este blog la publicación titulada Donar tierras para aquellos que quieran cultivar alimentos, que se puede ver haciendo clic aquí.
“Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”
Henry David Thoreau
Somos la solución al problema que nos han otorgado. Ninguna forma de vida será perfecta y aunque esto suene utópico, creo que está lejos de serlo, ya que podemos elegir vivir una vida mejor o al menos intentarlo, en lugar de cómo vivimos actualmente como vivimos una vida. Esclavizado a la deuda.
“What is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on?”
– Henry David Thoreau
Muchos dirían que quiero volver a la forma en que estaba antes, en el pasado. Pero no ven, que no se trata de volver atrás. Se trata de recuperar nuestra conexión con la tierra que perdimos.
Perdimos nuestros caminos. La gente podría pensar que progresamos pero en realidad retrocedimos. Ahora nos hemos vuelto dependientes de las corporaciones y los gobiernos para hacer las cosas por nosotros.
Ya no nos proveemos para nosotros mismos. Tomamos a la fundacion y se los dimos a ellos y ahora no tenemos ninguna base sobre la cual pararnos. Así que no vamos a volver, esencialmente estaríamos avanzando.
“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don’t, people with guns come and force us to pay. That’s violent.”
― Derrick Jensen
Nuevamente, mi visión es compartida por muchos y hay muchas comunidades de Eco Village y se están multiplicando, cada una con una idea diferente y una visión diferente.
Esa es la belleza de los pensamientos e ideas y algo que necesitamos desesperadamente en este mundo más. Libere la mente de las limitaciones y piense en soluciones para hacer avanzar al mundo.
Muchos verían la casa de la barro y este tipo de vida como vivir en la pobreza porque todo lo que ven es el dinero como riqueza y tener la gran casa de lujo con el coche agradable en este mundo de competencia interminable entre sí.
La única riqueza que necesitamos es la del otro y este hermoso mundo que nos rodea. Debemos dejar de ser esclavos de los salarios y esclavos de la deuda, dejar de depender de las corporaciones y los gobiernos. Unámonos y seamos uno, en solidaridad. Debemos recuperar nuestra libertad. Nuestra verdadera libertad.