Hello to all bricolabers....

The way things are today I cannot imagine post oil. The way things are
going, it seems that every last drop of oil will be sucked from the ground
by the power hungry. There is no comparably versatil energy source as oil
today and too many power-mongering misers wanting to control the
world...Yes it would be nice to stay connected after post oil if there is
still anyone around, but is it not more important at this moment to invest
energy in trying to slow down this maddening race to destroy our planet?

Perhaps my perspective and priorities are different from yours here where I
am , I would like to share them with you. I am now here in the Amazon of
Colombia, in Mocoa, on the foothills of the Andes, where it drops into the
amazon, technically because of flora, fauna and soil and watershed, it is
considered tha Amazon. This region is probably one of the most bio diverse
in the world. A few years ago a pair of biologists came here and discovered
above 50 new butterfly species in a few months for example...There is
water everywhere and it flows to the amazon jungle, all the rivers here are
afluents of the amazon. This is also one of the capitals of sacred
ayahuasca culture, although much more preserved and unknown then those in
Peru.

Forty kilometers down the mountain from Mocoa there are several oil fields
that have been functioning for various decades and which have already
contaminated the water for miles around. Curiously during the pandemic
(when Colombia went on shut down), these continued to funcion 24/7. They
have 2 helicopters but when the severely injured or ill people from the
nearby towns need urgent care they must travel by ambulance to the closest
hospital for 5 or more hours , 3 hours of which is a very difficult dirt
road.

And now 15 kilometers up the mountain from Mocoa, a Canadian exploration
mining company called Liberty copper (Libero cobre) is wanting to extract
copper from the mountain in order to " bring on the clean energy
transition" (their slogan translated from spanish). I don't think I have to
explain to you how this huge mine will destroy this region.

So here we are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The handful of activists here that are fighting this Canadian mine in Mocoa
have 0 financement and absolutely no idea of internet security and are
doing it in a country where 181 activists were murdered only in 2023.

I am no academic, in fact I never graduated from a university. However ,
life has been my university and by living amongst indigenous people I have
learned a lot....Perhaps the biggest lesson was that there was no time to
waste on futile activities that only consumed energy but brought no
concrete outcome. By living with the Kogi who do not depend on fossil fuel
(they only sometimes use chainsaws) I witnessed first hand for many years
what it means to live with iron age technology. Efficiency is of the
essence.

I understand that you do not imagine post oil to be the iron age, but I
think that not wasting any sort of energy will become much more important
in this post oil anthropocene scenario (if it is to exist)....
And perhaps not wasting energy at this moment is also important and it
means that we place all of our capacities at the service of saving our
environment which sustains us and all of the beautiful creatures of this
world.

Well I hope this email means something to you, it is an invitation to think
about things from another perspective and also a cry for help from one of
the many regions that is not so connected and much forgotten but very
important to the health of the Amazon forest.

Have beautiful days, Vanessa






On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 7:11 AM Maira <ce0064@???> wrote:

> cool
>
> i'm waiting for it ;)
>
> Em qui., 14 de nov. de 2024 às 08:22, Rob van Kranenburg <
> kranenbu@???> escreveu:
>
>> Hi Maira,
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> I am preparing a small draft this weekend and will send that to you this
>> weekend,
>>
>> Greetings, Rob
>>
>>
>> On 14 Nov 2024, at 12:06, Maira <ce0064@???> wrote:
>>
>> I want.
>> Tell me how
>>
>> xx
>>
>> Em qui., 14 de nov. de 2024 às 06:38, Rob van Kranenburg <
>> kranenbu@???> escreveu:
>>
>>> Eh meaning who wants to join?
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Nov 2024, at 10:34, Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???> wrote:
>>>
>>> Goedemorgen,
>>>
>>> Remote or in AMS?
>>>
>>> System design for establishing The Internet of People in a post-oil-world
>>> <https://thingscon.org/th-ngs-2024/program/system-design-for-establishing-the-internet-of-people-in-a-post-oil-world/>
>>> thingscon.org
>>> <https://thingscon.org/th-ngs-2024/program/system-design-for-establishing-the-internet-of-people-in-a-post-oil-world/>
>>> <cropped-thingscon_roundtwitter-180x180.jpg>
>>> <https://thingscon.org/th-ngs-2024/program/system-design-for-establishing-the-internet-of-people-in-a-post-oil-world/>
>>> <https://thingscon.org/th-ngs-2024/program/system-design-for-establishing-the-internet-of-people-in-a-post-oil-world/>
>>>
>>> Greetings, Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
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