Nice! Changing self to change environment is the ultimate goal. Eventually creates social norms, culture, or a common accepted understanding.
The counter is rules and regulations are needed to enforce the new paradigm. Maybe it's a bit of both? The pendulum keeps swinging. 🫂
Aboriginal (a broad generalization I know) ways of understanding property have resulted in direct conflict with the modern forms of land-use that pose the greatest threat to the environment.
Whether they are the Maori of New Zealand, the aboriginal peoples of the Amazon rain forests or the Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the 250 million aboriginal peoples are at the forefront of the ecological movement.
The ecologically benign forms of land use, attitudes to nature and property relations they seek to preserve seem to offer an alternative to the ecologically destructive forms of property and attitudes to nature that have gradually elbowed theirs aside over the last 400 years.
I mean that aboriginal land use and property relations offer an alternative, not in the sense of a solution, but in the sense of a contrasting concept of property that is different enough from our own to give us the much needed critical distance from the basic assumptions that continue to inform our debates about property and ecology.
