A waste product of our economic system

Dust to dust: They say the cure, or best outcomes for mental illness is connection. All connections arise from and return to the Nature of Place. And it seems too that instruction from the practitioners of our Mother planet’s Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) approach would have particular resonance to those suffering from social prejudice and abandonment.

In a time where we all suffer from hate and war, a respectful social partnership between Government, Unsheltered Citizens, and Original Peoples just may be the key that unlocks the door to the reset of Human Culture that we so desperately need to get through the accelerating whip-lashings of Climate Change.

Probably the most experienced, intellectually acclimated individuals to the Nature of Place, besides Original Peoples, are the Homeless. That we treat Unsheltered Citizens as a waste product of our perverted economic system is perhaps its most fatal flaw (of which there are several other heavy contenders).

The world is desperate for land stewards. Having a system for planned and supportive migrations for those without shelter at supportive portable and migrate-able camping sites overseen by trained TEK guides while providing basic services, including food, hygiene, health and monetary compensation to these Citizens for using fire to keep warm, cook with, and make biochar (sequester soil carbon) in our public and private forests would do much to reduce fuel and fire hazards in our forests and grasslands. — Richard Roth, Chico