i dunno, man.. i mean how many feral homeless people in the deeper forest are there, really?
& frankly, most of the trashing.. mattresses, garbage & debris.. that are left on forest land are by **housed** people who just don't want to go through the trouble of dumping their shit properly...
people who live in the forest, full time, living off the land or using it in a viable fashion are *so* fucking rare that it seems they are found more by accident than by their numbers..
& i will reiterate:
*why* can't we have everyone living in the forest???
i mean.. apart from the facts that native americans used & were *part* of nearly every ecosystem on this continent prior to the arrival of european caucasians, and apart from the fact that by far and away "everyone" does *not* want to live in the forest, what would it mean if they did?
it means they would have to take care of it, otherwise.. ta da!! it becomes a non-forest-village-city, such as now exists where the forest *had* existed..
yes, i'll grant that begs the question, a little, but the point is that people who want to live in the forest *as* a forest don't build houses, per se..
they live in caves, rough shacks, shelters, yurts, teepees, tents, etc., & *have* to live reasonably so they don't poison their wells..
they aren't there for comfort, primarily.. they are there for beauty..
& *not* to just visit..
if *everyone* wanted to live in the forest, & *keep* it a forest, then we would be fucking *blessed*...
but we don't, & the problem isn't the homeless, the drunks or the fringe hard-nuts who can do it well..
the problem is the people whom will exploit it..
& the solution, my friend, is *not* to keep people from using the forest, but to make what *hurts* the forest illegal..
fucking development is this planet's cancer, & you don't cure it by stopping people whom love her from being part of her.
you stop the things that make her not her.
government "protection" of the forest or other wild ecosystems is just a method for applied moral blindness..
take a look at the native central americans fighting for their heritage...
what the fuck would happen if *everyone* lived like them???
they'd be fucking forest people...
right?
but, hey.. the forest needs to be preserved, because after all, the *non* forest people want to destroy it, since *that* generates $$$..
"fucking burn that wood.. chop it down.. sell it..
but... make sure you leave some behind to be *protected*, because hey, it's immoral to kill it all, right??"
we are a fungal infection..
we are a fucking cancer..
we are like *any* mindless bacterium..
we eat what we can eat until we die in our shit..
there's a name for this law of biological behavior.. i forget who noted it originally, but basically any genoform will eat & recreate until all resources required for it to do so are exhausted.. bacteria, fish, insect, primate, flower, fungus, rodent, shellfish... *any* of them.. of us..
the ecologic balance of life is not primitive animal wisdom.. it is a law of eat & reproduce & die..
the balance is held simply in the race between what is eaten & what eats..
even plants.. what gathers sun (or thermal energy, at deep sea vents) or what crowds out the other competing plant..
even symbiosis is not wisdom, but an extension of that balance or greed & lust vs. available resources...
& humans are like no other creature, because we can eat (e.g. use) just about fucking *anything*, and *we* use fucking ***tools*** to do it, so we aren't even constrained by the old forces, unless you consider the ultimate extention of them, which is that we devour this fucking planet untill there is not enough left of her to do anything, except give us whatever pleasure we desire to keep of it..
Jesus..
hell, man..
everyone *******should******* live in the forest...
don't mean to be too snarky, but by analogy *&* extention..
you can't defend keeping dolphins in an aquarium, because it isn't safe for them at sea, right?
unless you change what makes it unsafe..
right?
right.
man.. the people to be fined are the people who keep fucking building..