Ecology: "Parkveld", a personal threshold

The reason why I posted nothing last week was because of the Climate Action Camp in my hometown. We were stationed on a location called Parkveld (translated: Park field). This is a field normally used only for agricultural purposes, yet somehow it got sold to a company who wants to build housings and industrial buildings on it. This without asking the opinion from the neighborhood. There isn't much green left in Leuven and yet they keep building and building and building...

Besides that, this isn't just any farmland, it's part of the place I grew up and therefore I consider it a part of myself. I do not want to see the land that I grew up on being reduced to a slab of concrete with some ugly industrial buildings on it. This activity was more to me than a random ecological activity. It was something personal.

So this is to all companies, politicians, etc. who are willing to step onto the land I grew up on and do whatever they please without asking the local community what they think:

This is land that belongs to the local community, which I'm part of because I was born and raised here. I do not care what rules have been made up that give any individual or collective the right to take away this land and use it for purposes that have a negative impact on the community and nature. If these were rules that would have a positive impact I would happily comply, but that just isn't the case here. These rules are made up by only a very small fraction of one of the millions of species on this entire planet. None of the other species EVER agreed upon these rules. Even the majority of our own species haven't agreed upon it, yet we act like these rules are made by God himself. These rules are made by man and can by changed by man. I do not care who made these rules, but I do know one thing: You do NOT have the right to remove people from the land they dwelled upon for hundreds of years. You do NOT have the right to remove rare species, or any species for that matter, from their territory. You do NOT have the right to remove our precious nature, from which some trees are even way older than you.
You have gone too far and now there is at least one extra activist you have to deal with. I will undertake whatever actions necessary to protect the land I grew up on and its people, using all my skills and all my contacts. See you at the green front line.

Bron : Pieter Abts

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Ecology

"One little plastic bag doesn't change a thing!" A standard answer I get when I have a discussion with someone about ecology. Well, I strongly disagree with that statement. It certainly does, in my opinion.  "Just one little car ride." "Just one little piece of meat." "Just one little flight on a plane."
Well, it never stays with just one little this or that. The next day it becomes another one. The day after that it's another one. The day after that maybe even two. Doesn't make a big difference right? If there was only one person on this planet doing this, no problem. If you have several millions of people doing this, which is the case, you have a problem. This is one of the main reasons why we have all these ecological problems now: Underestimating the effect of ones own actions. You do have an impact on the planet, be it a positive or a negative one!

How does it become a positive impact? That's an answer I've been trying to answer for several years. I hope I can provide you some information on that subject. I'll be sharing this with you through the posts I'll be posting on this blog.

If you want to know how my ecological mindset came to be, read this.

These are posts written on an ecological subject:
Ecological traveling through Europe
"First Earth", The best movie I've seen to date on ecological architecture

Bron : Pieter Abts