if i had 100 whole metric tons consisting only of $100 bills
i would:
- buy forests/jungles/islands (as well as politicians) and declare these areas "protected national parks"
- buy land that's currently being used for cultivating palm oil and mining lithium/etc. and reforest them, reintroduce native plants and just wait for the animals to come back
- hypocritically travel the world via plane, tuktuk, e-bicycle, motorboat...etc. tbh i now prefer speed boats to slow-ass sailboats.
- start volunteer organizations for girls on gap year who want to plant corals
- start educational organizations to teach people how to live in the jungle/forest/desert/etc....i think it's scary how we're forgetting how to live in these so-called "primitive" ways (which are actually very sophisticated and not easy to learn)...even people from the jungle are coming out of the jungle to go to "normal" school to learn how to add and subtract and read and write but they're forgetting how to climb trees and gather medicinal herbs. i think it's sad that this way of life is not really an option for anyone anymore just because (1) deforestation (2) the modern world encroaching (3) people are losing the knowledge ; people act like in 2024, all things are possible, but the one thing i want -- to live in the jungle -- is out of reach for us. everyone can aspire to live in the city now. but how many people can honestly aspire to live in the jungle anymore? there might be room for the odd girl who somehow marries a tribe member and lives with them but that's it. i wish it were a lifestyle choice option for the whole world without encroaching on anyone's territory. i wish we could reforest the world and give people the option to live this way...
i'm becoming increasingly anti-high-tech...
i don't want to live in a world of VR and iphones with ever-faster processing speeds and "new features"
i want to live in a world of plants and animals which are pleasing to look at
i want to eat seaweed not worrying about whether or not it's toxic from chemical waste or not
i want to walk in the jungle on logs and in mud
i want to swim in the ocean and see life
i want it to be a valid lifestyle option to live by hunting and making fires
honestly even sailing is shitty for the environment.
every sailor knows that the best kind of battery is a lithium battery (that's the kind that really allows you to live off-the-grid because it stores more energy) and lithium doesn't come from nowhere...
lithium comes from homes of people who need their forests to live.
we are delusional to think that sailing is somehow good for the environment. all that shit that goes into producing a sailboat and parts for the sailboat are not being considered when we purely calculate the fact that wind is our main source of transportation power.
when i registered at the DMV in the US, i registered myself as a green party and i'm so fucking glad i did.
it's the only party whose values make any goddamn sense to me.