Nice reflection. Like you, I have often felt jealous in public spaces and struggled to enjoy places that can’t offer some solitude. How nice it would be to have my own private wilderness. Build a thousand mile barbed wire fence around my favorite river basin. I think accessibility, however, is a net positive for most places. Especially those that are lucky enough to get some tender care from a federal management agency. I think if instead of or in addition to a monetary contribution, people were required to make sacrifices/offerings on mountain tops, then the sanctity of those places might be better preserved.
I agree about accessibility being a net positive for most places. Wilderness has to be open to everyone if anyone is going to care about it. Sacrifice is an interesting idea. On this occasion I saw many making pixelated offerings to the instagram gods, but not much else.
I’ve been thinking a lot about extractive recreation, and it’s a myth that selfie stick tourism is non-extractive. Every footstep and every breath is an extraction. Paying for physical upkeep is not enough I think to preserve public spaces. Bring something holy and give it away. Check out the article I reposted about ritualized conservation in Noema mag.
Nice reflection. Like you, I have often felt jealous in public spaces and struggled to enjoy places that can’t offer some solitude. How nice it would be to have my own private wilderness. Build a thousand mile barbed wire fence around my favorite river basin. I think accessibility, however, is a net positive for most places. Especially those that are lucky enough to get some tender care from a federal management agency. I think if instead of or in addition to a monetary contribution, people were required to make sacrifices/offerings on mountain tops, then the sanctity of those places might be better preserved.
I agree about accessibility being a net positive for most places. Wilderness has to be open to everyone if anyone is going to care about it. Sacrifice is an interesting idea. On this occasion I saw many making pixelated offerings to the instagram gods, but not much else.
I’ve been thinking a lot about extractive recreation, and it’s a myth that selfie stick tourism is non-extractive. Every footstep and every breath is an extraction. Paying for physical upkeep is not enough I think to preserve public spaces. Bring something holy and give it away. Check out the article I reposted about ritualized conservation in Noema mag.
Will do. Thanks for the rec.