P O U C H U L U : S T A T E M E N T F O R A D A P T I N G T O H A B I T A T C H A N G E
The following are six essential commands to stop destroying our Habitat: 1- To avoid car-based urbanizations, limiting the use of cars for countryside trips; walking, bikes, trams, and steam trains can save what's left of the landscape. 2- To promote wood and organic fabrics instead of plastic in Habitat, furniture and packaging, also in clothing, tools and toys. 3- To promote analogue techniques, prioritising real drawings, prints, books, films, records, stimulating tact, flavour, hearing, sight, harmonics; they are recyclable and ecological. 4- To get food from around where we live. About 30% of global pollution will be gone when the majority of comestibles are produced in or around each city. New trans-oceanic vessel ships will set sail again, transporting selected items around the globe. 5- To limit the use of the Internet, "social networks", like any net, were designed to catch victims, to monitor and control people's behaviour, suffocating our liberty by saturating our mind with violent news and data. 6- I propose small Cities in resilient prairies, forests and deserts; consumerist habits will be gone. Professions will be replaced by métiers. Life will focus in educating children in the arts, geometry, science, freedom and individual responsibility. Historical architectural principles are my guide; the nature of things and rational thinking, my path for understanding. |
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photo: planet Mars, dust storm, PIA15959, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), courtesy of NASA |