The outcome of local politics often poorly serves the human residents
of Santa Cruz County, but it is far worse for the other than human
residents who share their home with us. Our system of government does
not recognize the living natural world as co-occupants of the county and
therefore is unwilling or incapable of protecting it from human growth
and development.
Human politics, technology and culture fly in the face of basic
interrelationships that have governed the natural world for billions of
years, long before ancient proto-humans decided it was a good idea to
abandon the natural world, climb down out of the trees and make their
way in the world on two legs, holding their heads and brains on high.
It’s long past time to start thinking about how we can restructure ourselves and our human world back to a closer cooperative relationship with the non-human world, instead of destroying it.
