(Excluding reserves and sacred land) It should always be legal to sleep out in the wilderness, tentless, literally with your own human body nestled into the rock of the Earth from whence your matter came, wtf. Germany Austria and Switzerland. There aren’t even no animals there! Small tents should always be legal out of sight of popular routes and water sources, set up in the evening and packed up in the morning, no off-roading or fires, and of course a grave obligation to make no mark. In Australia we say, take only photos, leave only footprints. All beaches should be public. Berries and most mushrooms should be handpickable provided they are consumed on site and not transported. Access rights for private property obviously need to be renegotiated, with state pressure on owners scaled to land concentration, so hikers can find thoroughfares connecting to arterial water bodies, public trails, etc. (no vehicles duh). Well ultimately we should renegotiate what it means to own land in general, à la Scotland, and with attention to minimising legal liability for owners whose land is publicly used. At higher population densities and depending on behaviour some of these things may require licenses but the process should remain as deprivatised as possible i.e. no German driver’s license situation where you pay 3000€. Instead emphasise informal, unstructured knowledge transmission through families and friendship groups. Licenses should be relatively contagious, i.e. you will naturally acquire the requisite knowledge and motivation to pass the test through spending time around others who have passed, but otherwise there are very cheap state-run courses available, basically someone (ideally an Indigenous person if there is a local Indigenous population) taking a bunch of people camping and teaching them about native plants. Also elements of this are introduced in state primary schools; take kids into the wilderness at least four times a year, even for one day at a time, so they can understand seasonal variation. And if you get a license you have TOTAL freedom to roam. I’ve read very little theory about this these are just my thoughts.
jacobvanloon
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germansingergirl
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