While new cities are created, the following are five essential steps to stop polluting in every-day's life: 1- To abandon cars and any urbanization depending on them: walking, bikes and trains can save what's left of the landscape. 2- To avoid plastic in packaging, clothing, shoes, tools, toys and furniture, except in specialized scientific instrumentality and tools. 3- To reinstate and recycle analogue machines, they produce better prints, images, textures, sounds full of harmonics and imperfections, not mere replicated sterilised pixels. 4- To get food from around where we live. 5- To keep away as much as possible from "social networks": digital communication technologies are extraordinary, but because of the nature and the way it developed, internet has no other goal but monitoring us. On the other hand, batteries cannot be recycled (we are not supposed to use mobile devices unless important calls or emergencies), These media is in the process of transforming humanity in a new species of slaves, at all times controlled and acknowledged by anonymous entities. Quoting Roland Barthes, when information is dictated, it is imposed as a myth, definitive and final. The message has no physical context: there is no real conversation. We must not allow to be filed, indexed or briefed. Spying technology plus collected information is the core of the virtual world; executed by one side or the other (corporations or the State) it is destroying an important principle of humanist civilization, represented in the necessity to talk face to face, in the right to think, to reason, to disagree, to have the choice not to follow the crowd (any crowd). Ultimately, freedom developed and protedted by analysis and reasoning. Without it, we will not be able to confront the consequences of Habitat Change, nor even to acknowledge its existence. (page 5 of 5)

Pouchulu, 2012

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