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mOz's Life List
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1. live slowly
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2. feel at home
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3. cheer my mistakes
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4. be a hunter gatherer... only way to save the Earth?
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5. take P.O.Hely on a journey around historicism
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What are the options then?
Exactly like, when land was privatised, there were still land-commons. This is the parallel for the intellectual domain, for the biodiversity domain. Like not all land was private property, not all knowledge can allowed to become private property. Not all seeds, not all medicinal plants can allowed to become private property. It is our right to defend the commons. In the end, it would mean defending biodiversity as a community resource – or as a commons – which means it’s not available for grabs. It is available freely to the community, but not to outsiders. Outside commercial interests and the large corporations that are coming in and pirating and prospecting, have to take permission exactly like when you enter someone’s commons you’ve to take permission not of an individual, but of the whole village community.
