I have relocated to Washington, DC for the purposes of a further decrease in pay from my SCA Intern wage, living with my parents, and learning about how our government gets things done (arguably). On a more positive note, I now live in the land of glorious public transportation and get to work for a strong, respected (some might say pushy) Wilderness advocacy group. Details will develop as to what, exactly, I do, but for now just know that if you can't relate to the people that actually make the decisions, there is no point in trying to convince them to make yours. This statement means that at some point I will ned to take up field or ground work with the locals, but this is just one stepping stone in building my skills to fight for humans kind--because if we keep trying to have dominion over the earth and the species with which we share it, God will only smite us. If we coexist and integrate ourselves with the balanced chaos that is nature, then we will hopefully protect and then pass on all sorts of developed and undeveloped marvels to our children.
Learning how to articulate the importance of undeveloped spaces and proper development of developed spaces is my challenge. Carrying capacity if my pal. Building firecodes and traffic jams are my analogic friends. And preserving Wilderness and habitat corridors is my passion, for the sake of those of us that live here today. That way we don't have to pay even higher taxes to clean our muddied drinking water, repave our washed-out roads, and to have an ambulance respond to a vehicle accident with wildlife that had no where else to go to get to more foraging land and therefore became roadkill.
It's hard to figure out how to make an impact. I guess we just have to go about our passions and hope that we can spark curiosity or change or hope or love.
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"Building firecodes and traffic jams are my analogic friends"
pls explain. do you have a problem with building codes?
Not at all! They are great analogies for why we need designated Wilderness in America, and why we can only graze so many cattle on the desert scrub of the southwest, and why only so many people can move to places that draw their river from the Colorado river (unless we want to stop ourselves and Mexico from growing crops, or stop raising cattle that churn up the soil and increase the turbidity of the water). It is all about density and carrying capacity. You and I can bury our trash in our own private landfill as much as we want, so long as it's the only landfill within a couple miles (depending on environment) and so long as no one else is gonna put another landfill there for about a 1000 years or more. But when lots of people start doing it, things change, and we have to be more careful.
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