- Gain access to sufficient food, water and clean air to sustain life; and
- Independently self identify plus the wherewithal to assert our identity within our group;
- Procreate genetically and conceptually; and
- Gain access to safe and secure shelter for ourselves and our dependents.
Consequently, the places and the geographies people live are supremely important as are resources paces have. When a place that is RESOURCErich with a human population that does not draw down too heavily on its resources a sustainable life is a reality.
However, the reality is that human populations have grown to the extent where resources are increasingly hard to win. At some time in the past in human history, resources were ONcycled organically within ecosystems in pace with need. The current reality is that ecosystems are 'cycling' at a pace somewhat less than humanity's and other lifeforms needs. Consequently, humanity needs to be more active, and where appropriated 'activated'by humanity, in the ONcycling processes humaity depends upon, or bear some concesquense.
If we think about it, 'farming and agriculture' involves this class of human intervention – and evolved because of need. It is just the case that currently the imperatives that stimulated humanity's need to intervene in organic cum 'natural' ONcycling now needs Ato be more intensive, more judiciously focused, more knowledge based, interventions in order to sustain humanity's sustainability.
This should mean that with new technologies, and new plusexpanded communication possibilitites, historic technologies can be re-energised thus enabling increased ENERGYinputs to impact upon ONcyling's outputs that by extentsion should in turn enhance the habitability of 'places' – urban, peri-urban, rural.
The TREASUREtrove that is increasingly becoming open to exploitation are humanity's 'middens' – AKA Waste Management Centres, tips, dumps etc. Here we might usefully think about historic GOLDdeposits that have been abandoned because the EASYgold has been exhausted. However current technologies and engineering opportunities change the paradigm in such a way as to revisit old mines to recover the less accesable gold and continue to build the GOLDreseve for whatever purpose.
Waste Management Centres cum Resource Recovery Centres are beginning to be exploited but the investors in mining and manufacturing rely upon the maintenance of the status quo and the supply of 'new resources' extractable from 'the environment'given their investment in the status quo. The extraction of fossil fuels and the manufacture of plastics fit this critique well enough. Metal mining is less reliant upon extracting new resource and metals have been gleaned from 'waste dumps' for time immemorial.
Clearly there is the need to reimagine 'Waste Management Centres' and to:
- Begin to invest in the resources they hold; and
- Actively compete with the producers of newly expolited material; and
- Develop products, new and revisited, that industry is yet to discover or see value in.
It is likely that this kind of paradigm shift could/will generate a new INVESTMENTmindset and thus expandable WEALTHopportunities across an expansive demographic. Clearly this is not an imperative that investment driven governance is looking for. The evidence for the assertion is in the resistance wherever it is found for the maintenance of 'Waste Management Centres'. These 'places' are currently delivering fiscal dividends to these investors and all that depend upon them.
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