Planetary Land Claim - Regeneration

As Chief of Wild Kitten Last Nation, I recently put a land claim on the whole planet. 

I didn't want to, but I was pretty much forced into it. Too many people, organisations, and governments are treating the land like it's their own property, taking and taking and taking without a thought of letting the land do what the land does best...flourish with life.

I'll return this land, one square meter at a time, to others who have shown their devotion to apply permaculture techniques to each chunk. This means that each square meter needs to hold water. Each square meter needs to increase its carbon content. Each square meter needs to increase the depth of healthy soil. Each square meter needs to encourage an abundance of life.

Whether the square meter is in a forest, in a park, near a brook, on the side of the road, around your home, in a field, in an orchard, on a pasture, under a lake, under an ocean...I'll release my claim to that land once I've been assured that a person or group of people are devoted to protecting that land using permaculture techniques.

Here's how Bill Mollison described "The Ethical Basis of Permaculture" in his book, "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual"

1. CARE OF THE EARTH: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply.

2. CARE OF PEOPLE: Provision for people to access those resources necessary to their existence.

3. SETTING LIMITS TO POPULATION AND CONSUMPTION: By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles. 

Now don't get all excited about the "LIMITS TO POPULATION" phrase. This just means that any one piece of land has a maximum capacity depending on its current natural capacity. You can't feed a million people from one hectare of land. 

But if you regenerate damaged land, you can double, triple, quadruple the capacity of that land to sustain life. Increase the capacity for life on a piece of land and you can provide for more people. Decrease the capacity on a piece of land and the number of people for which it can provide will decrease.

Number 3 on the above list can be boiled down to "return of surplus". The surplus comes from the sun, rain, snow, and atmosphere. 

You can't strip the land of more than is replenished from the sun, water, and atmosphere. Otherwise, the use of the land is not sustainable.

If you want your land back, now you know what to do.

Take that Queen Elizabeth!

- Chief Dave, Wild Kitten Last Nation