Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation. It’s about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosystems, and restore degraded landscapes. Through rewilding, wildlife’s natural rhythms create wilder, more biodiverse habitats.
Move over Mutual of Omaha, there’s a new show in town.
On a small scale, you see this in towns where people rewild their lawns into a bug utopia. The bigger picture is to let farms go wild and force people to live in 15-minute cities and out of rural areas. Turn farm lands back into wild spaces.
Check out our neighbors to the south and the urban project MBTA-C act and Citizens Housing and Planning Assn. (CHAPA) for multi-zoning communities. They are taking over single-family homes to make way for multi-family units along the T.
Forcing people into 15-minute cities and eating bugs is not as far away as you may believe. In Dover, New Hampshire, there’s a group pushing “Smart Cities.” On the surface, they want to make roads safer for pedestrians, put artwork on and along roads, and eliminate downtown roads to traffic. But when you peel back the hype, it goes far deeper.
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Urban renewal with a twist. You will not own cars and walk to all services. Big Brother will monitor all your data, add digital currency, and voila!
Smart Cities claim for data capture on their website should make you wonder about all the “data” they are collecting, its clear they are talking about you (data), and them “government”!?” Then, re-wilding the outlying areas. Their claims and reasoning are unfounded and full of bunk. Yet, there are some who believe the hype!
The WHO, WEF and globalist believe traditional farming is causing water shortages, poisoning the oceans with toxic runoff, nitrogen increases and CO2 emissions causing global warming. Their answer to feed us is bugs and “soil-less” hydroponics and drop irrigation, aka vertical farming. Much of their claims about farming are false, but they are a determined bunch, and we minions have to eat.
Vertical farming can only effectively produce limited leafy green and berry crops. To date, cannot replace tall field crops and other protein dense plants. They use exponentially more resources per crop than traditional farming. Northern climates require a huge amount of heat. They use artificial light. Both require a large amount of fuel and electricity. Vertical crops are still venerable to pests and disease. The energy required to grow food has shown more carbon emissions combined with the plant’s CO2 than traditional farming, including shipping crops to market. But they are not discouraged and are determined to replace traditional dirt farming!
Will turning farms into wild utopia work as they say it will? It’s well documented in New Hampshire, prior to 1600s, was heavily forested—even the indigenous cleared land for farming. Once a farm is not “farmed,” it will turn back into a forest within years. What will happen to land in NH that is “rewilded” after the forest grows in? Many predators kept at bay by farms and farmers will start to emerge. Many species of wild birds who nest in fields will lose their habitat. Predators will have no boundaries. A new ecosystem would emerge. According to the “rewild” Web site, they want predators back, not bunnies and butterflies. Ireland government said out loud in a public service video, “Ireland 2050” all farms will be rewilded as part of an effort to heal our planet. Don’t know about you but how is 60m bison ( roughly how many roamed the plains in 1700) flatulence different than 60m Cows flatulence? But I digress. This will save the world, according to the rewilding folks…
We have a new influx of dependents to care for; I suppose some of this makes sense. They have to live somewhere. But with this plan we are loosing our freedoms, to move about, eating choices and I’m sure rewilding will not be like our national parks where we are free to fresh air and nature, thus the predators roaming free and we’ll have no cars to get there.. I also believe this will do little for the sentient creatures like deer, rabbits and most prey animals. Eventually, survival of the fittest will prevail. But the million-dollar question is, what’s the plan for all the people?
Heck, just add bubble over the 15 minute cities and Sci-fi classic Logan’s Run doesn’t seem so Sci-fi…
Save a farm, buy local…
