Colonialists be like
Colonialists be like
See - Cluses, Haute Savoie
And the upper Rhone valley in Switzerland for that matter lol
I get that life is safer, cleaner, and more comfortable for almost everyone on earth.
But, I wish I could decide to spend a few months not working and living in the mountains or jungle without any serious work or financial repercussions.
My wife and I are at a place where we have a long term plan to save and buy land away from the city.
I can’t wait until I’m out in the country side and and can go outside to nature rather than concrete.
That sounds wonderful. I often fantasize about living on a mountain side in a cottage with a porch where I sit with my wife on a crisp morning, just enjoying the sun rise, a coffee and the comfort of being in the moment with my closet ally on earth.
I wish I had the money to do that someday.
I congratulate you and your wife to make a dream come true. I believe, if you long so much and can make it happen, it will be worth it and it is something to work for.
without any serious work
this part sadly only works, if you've already worked your ass off beforehand.
Meh, you can be pretty middle class and afford to take a month or two off of work.
I could do it with my PTO if I really wanted.
“worked your ass off beforehand”
Criticism potentially not valid if you’ve tricked a corporation to pay you to shitpost.
the country
Have you tried being born rich?
That’s what it’s being addressed. That a middle class exists and can and do take a month off at a time. They went off into left field. Try to keep up.
Precisely. Entirely too rough of terrain.
What this place really needs is some nice rental properties. Pave some roads going all over the mountains and boom, easy $500/night
That’s exactly right… For now.
But if there’s coal in that mountain, we can level the whole thing like they do in West Virginia and leave a nice flat spot for an industrial park when we’re done.
Urf, one of the candidates for mayor of the region where I live said that if they won they’d make an industrial park to encourage jobs … a third of the municipality is a nature reserve, half of it is a literal mountain, and the remainder is small farms. There are no roads big enough for a full size lorry, and there’s a large industrial estate in the valley below which provides lots of jobs.
It just made me wonder if they were that corrupt or simply on drugs.
if they were that corrupt or simply on drugs.
Probably both
nah, more like:
imagine an open pit mine here 😍
maybe mountaintop removal?
William Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness” should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in conservation or environmental science. It’s a great critique of how colonialism has tainted our understanding of what “wilderness” and nature in general is and humanity’s role in them.
More info: …ubc.ca/…/the-trouble-with-wilderness-a-critique-…
Read it here: …washington.edu/…/Cronon The trouble with Wildern…
I get the point, but I am also obsessed with automation games, so you it says that and I’m like “oh, I can put the hub over there, and a tower on that mountain so I can get a good look at the factory in the valley. Oh, and I hope there is a good water source over around that bend I can put oil there.”
There may be something wrong with me.