Thanks so much for sharing this and the Norway piece Andy. Really fantastic pieces.
Sobering though:
"What’s particularly interesting about this revitalization is that researchers have begun to recognize the need for humanity to be a part of the landscape, but fail to see how our current economic model explicitly makes this nearly impossible. Utilization of bureaucracy and general funds as well as well-meaning but underskilled volunteers is a mixture for long-term disaster and takes not only the ownership of these systems, but the reason for these systems out of the hands of the communities themselves and into a pseudo-mix of white-collar professionals and the citizens who have the time to volunteer in these types of feel-good projects, which is problematic in the way our sense of place within nature is becoming the exclusive playground of the upper and upper-middle classes."
Thanks so much for sharing this and the Norway piece Andy. Really fantastic pieces.
Sobering though:
"What’s particularly interesting about this revitalization is that researchers have begun to recognize the need for humanity to be a part of the landscape, but fail to see how our current economic model explicitly makes this nearly impossible. Utilization of bureaucracy and general funds as well as well-meaning but underskilled volunteers is a mixture for long-term disaster and takes not only the ownership of these systems, but the reason for these systems out of the hands of the communities themselves and into a pseudo-mix of white-collar professionals and the citizens who have the time to volunteer in these types of feel-good projects, which is problematic in the way our sense of place within nature is becoming the exclusive playground of the upper and upper-middle classes."