The rugged landscape is itself the result of ecological collapse. Once upon a time Dartmoor was a dense forest. Then came farming and overfarming which upset the balance. Turning forestry into fields progressively eroded the natural cover of oak trees. Disaster awaited.
.. hi-density urban environments provide the perfect site for experimenting with potential up-scalable forms of sustainable food supply because of their built-in economies of scale – a lot of consumers for the same produce within the one infrastructure.
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital it is woven into at a domestic and community level. Saving a small amount hardly constitutes an incentive for the average household..
As our ecosystems are now entirely dominated by capital and if capital is value in motion, then it’s appropriate that we are gathered to work on the future in a mobile garden to envision a way to get through a state of being that’s living on borrowed time.
