{"id":520,"date":"2023-04-16T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiube.se\/zon9\/?page_id=520"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:59:43","slug":"360-grader-ekologik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kiube.se\/zon9\/360-grader-ekologik\/","title":{"rendered":"360 grader ekologik"},"content":{"rendered":"

The origin of dividing av circle in 360 degrees is a subject of debate<\/span><\/span> amongst historians<\/span><\/span>. Some say i<\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/span> is of ancient origin and ha<\/span><\/span>d<\/span><\/span> do to<\/span><\/span> with the number of days in a year, others that<\/span><\/span> it<\/span><\/span> was<\/span><\/span>connected to the<\/span><\/span> opportunity<\/span><\/span> to divide 36<\/span><\/span>0<\/span><\/span> into even numbers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the practice of navigation other sums have been tried, but 360 degrees has prevailed<\/span><\/span>. In the European exploration of the globe, this figure became one basis for the work of navigators. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is today little consensus on whether the European exploration of the world from the 15<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span> century and on worth should be <\/span><\/span>v<\/span><\/span>ie<\/span><\/span>wed<\/span><\/span> as something positive<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> I<\/span><\/span>n any case the negative impact it had on other cultures and nature is well known. Still, even if the views<\/span><\/span> that<\/span><\/span> allowed our forefathers to sail across oceans and conquer, enslave and exploit may today be deemed as something belonging to the past, we continue to navigate <\/span><\/span>with<\/span><\/span> 360 degrees<\/span><\/span>. T<\/span><\/span>his is a common factor that might help us better understand <\/span><\/span>how it was to <\/span><\/span>search for<\/span><\/span> new worlds<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>and for us <\/span><\/span>to find better ways to take care of<\/span><\/span> world <\/span><\/span>we live in today.<\/span><\/span> Our forefathers could look down <\/span><\/span>over<\/span><\/span> valleys of<\/span><\/span> look<\/span><\/span>up at mountains<\/span><\/span>, and they would climb the sailing rigs of ships. Still the horizontal perspective of the world was what dominated when exploring it, and this perspective was divided into 360 degrees. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The explorers of the past sailed of<\/span><\/span>f<\/span><\/span> from Europe where certain trees and places had<\/span><\/span> for centuries<\/span><\/span> been sacred<\/span><\/span>. They<\/span><\/span> arrived amongst<\/span><\/span> indigenous people who also considered<\/span><\/span> certain<\/span><\/span> areas and species as holy. The fact that both that those who <\/span><\/span>had come<\/span><\/span> to conquer and those deemed to be conquered both shared beliefs that certain parts of nature should be left alone, has seldom been acknowledged. It might also seem unnecessary to ack<\/span><\/span>nowledge, since as<\/span><\/span> we know<\/span><\/span> it very seldom<\/span><\/span>led to mutual understanding<\/span><\/span>. At least not until<\/span><\/span> the end of<\/span><\/span> the 20<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span> century.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yellowstone in the USA was<\/span><\/span> in 1872<\/span><\/span> the first area in the world t<\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span> became a national park, and it spurred a trend of creating national parks around the globe that continues to this this day. In the wake of national parks followed an ever-growing number of other official ways <\/span><\/span>of<\/span><\/span> legally protecting pieces of nature from the onslaught of man. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the third decade of the 21<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span> century there is little use to write another book describing the state the biosphere is in. It is<\/span><\/span> also<\/span><\/span>at this time a well-established fact that protecting small <\/span><\/span>fragments<\/span><\/span> of nature surrounded by endless fields of wheat, infrastructure and urban sprawl is not a long-term solution to protect biodiversity. At the best, we are prolonging the extinction of species we wish to save.<\/span><\/span> Isolating \u201cislands\u201d of plants, frogs, bees and mammals in fragments of greenery, from which they have no possibility to reach conspecifics, make them vulnerable to disease, interbreeding and obesity.<\/span><\/span>Still, the prevailing focus of politicians, officials<\/span><\/span>, biologist<\/span><\/span> and the general public in the western world<\/span><\/span> interested in conservation effort<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> continues to be the creation of replicas to Yellowstone<\/span><\/span>. Or<\/span><\/span> perhaps some kind of modern<\/span><\/span> analogies to holy places that proceeded <\/span><\/span>national parks<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When referring to holy places as something the proceeded modern ways of protecting biodiversity it should of course <\/span><\/span>be acknowledged that numerous indigenous people still protect places that are considered sacred. Thi<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> fact is interesting not only<\/span><\/span> because of<\/span><\/span> the importance it might have for the pr<\/span><\/span>eserving<\/span><\/span> areas that otherwise<\/span><\/span> might<\/span><\/span> have been deemed to destruction<\/span><\/span>. It is also of importance<\/span><\/span> due to<\/span><\/span> indigenous people both in the north<\/span><\/span>ern<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>southern hemisphere<\/span><\/span> having come into<\/span><\/span> conflict with the idea of protecting nature <\/span><\/span>as<\/span><\/span> national parks. There is a sad list of people being driven away from their homes o<\/span><\/span>r<\/span><\/span> prohibited<\/span><\/span> to live in <\/span><\/span>traditional ways with the argument that people are bad for <\/span><\/span>nature<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> Parallel to this is<\/span><\/span> the<\/span><\/span>tragic practice of placing indigenous people in \u201creservations\u201d. It is well known what this practice has led to. Even so, the idea of certain cultures having to prevail in squared of areas remains statuesque<\/span><\/span> on a global scale<\/span><\/span>. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Science <\/span><\/span>and technological development have during the last century made it possible to once again explore the world and to <\/span><\/span>extend the human will to<\/span><\/span> explor<\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span> into<\/span><\/span> space<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>With aircrafts, satellites and drills extending miles below our feet we have come to discover and confirm aspects of our home that were unthinkable or merely theoretical in the past.<\/span><\/span> One<\/span><\/span> sum of the new era of exploration has amongst many other conclusions been the worry of climate chang<\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span>. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ironical fact that it was the global military industrial complex that made it possible to take the iconic distant picture of <\/span><\/span>what Carl Sagan called the<\/span><\/span> \u201c<\/span><\/span>pale blue dot<\/span><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/span> in space<\/span><\/span>, a picture<\/span><\/span> held close by environmentalist<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> has been pointed out <\/span><\/span>by several authors. <\/span><\/span>Pictures like this have brought<\/span><\/span> us to the conflicting situation where the belief that new technology will save us <\/span><\/span>has been<\/span><\/span> put up against<\/span><\/span> opinions<\/span><\/span> that new ways of thinking, acting and living is what is most<\/span><\/span> urgently<\/span><\/span> needed<\/span><\/span>: Driving less or sharing a car<\/span><\/span> with others<\/span><\/span> could reduce pollution, but cars still require rare metals and an industrial complex with <\/span><\/span>environmental<\/span><\/span> impact extend<\/span><\/span>ing<\/span><\/span> across the globe. <\/span><\/span>The decision to buy <\/span><\/span>organic food means you can reduce the amount of pesticide residues <\/span><\/span>in your daily meal. But<\/span><\/span> is this choice enough to make the changes needed in agriculture to protect biodiversity if<\/span><\/span> organic farms have turned an entire <\/span><\/span>valley<\/span><\/span> into an intensely cultivated landscape? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is it so that only the change of deeper personal values can lead to real change?<\/span><\/span> I<\/span><\/span>ndeed<\/span><\/span>, it can be hard<\/span><\/span> to say that <\/span><\/span>technological advance or values should<\/span><\/span> prevail over the other. <\/span><\/span>One possible outcome<\/span><\/span> of<\/span><\/span> this situation it <\/span><\/span>the risk of being<\/span><\/span> left with<\/span><\/span> the emptiness of<\/span><\/span> not knowing what to do<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> and the question of where to find hope for the future.<\/span><\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There <\/span><\/span>have been numerous<\/span><\/span> ideas that <\/span><\/span>humanity might some day have to venture out into space in order for us to survive<\/span><\/span> as a specie<\/span><\/span>. However, the day that this <\/span><\/span>might<\/span><\/span> become possible constantly seems<\/span><\/span> constantly to<\/span><\/span> move farther<\/span><\/span> into the future<\/span><\/span>. At the same time the limits of our not round but slightly oval little planet and the ecosystems on which we are dependent become more and more obvious. We can fly around it in<\/span><\/span><\/a> 45<\/span><\/span> hour<\/span><\/span>s.<\/span><\/span> A<\/span><\/span>ir pollution<\/span><\/span> from<\/span><\/span> one side of <\/span><\/span>the globe<\/span><\/span> take<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> less than two weeks to reach the other side. It is not bigger than that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

From our aircrafts or spacecraft, we can look down over small squares of greenery such as Yellowstone<\/span><\/span> in the USA<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> Chapada<\/span><\/span>Diamantina<\/span><\/span> in Brazil<\/span><\/span> or <\/span><\/span>Bj\u00f6rnlandet<\/span><\/span> in Sweden<\/span><\/span> and ask what we have done to the planet. Is a continued squaring<\/span><\/span> off<\/span><\/span> of certain areas and surrounding <\/span><\/span>fragments of nature<\/span><\/span> with cattle ranches, tree plantations and infrastructure the way we want to continue protecting Earth? Our should we instead turn the perspective and start protecting <\/span><\/span>ecosystems<\/span><\/span> in 360 degrees <\/span><\/span>surrounding<\/span><\/span> farmland, towns and factories?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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