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I agree with this sentiment. I'm not so sure about the "consciousness raising" (pushing a message) stuff because, in my opinion, it doesn't pan out, but the learning skills, connecting with wild nature & finding cracks are all worthwhile activities. That these projects need not be anarchist feels correct to me, too.

I really like the stuff "Radical Mycology" is doing & I would love to see more projects like that. Learning to see the threads of relationships (those hodgepodge ecosystems in cities) that are around you & working to help improve/deepen them can be helpful because it might give you a sense of connection to the non-humans around you in a way fetishistic awe of pristine virgin wilderness can't.

As much as I might have certain problems with how those anarchists in Portland fixed those potholes, I think there is something somewhat beautiful in how they went about it. I would like to see DIY projects like that, which focus on bio-remediation, spring up. There's a lot that individual initiative can physically do to counter the destructive, poisonous activities of industry.

I know that there's no way to make cities a beautiful place to live in, but you can help your fellow non-human creatures have a better chance to survive there & in the long run, projects like that may help with the problem of mass extinction. Because the more that healthy ecosystems are cut off from each other (through farming, resource extraction, housing, etc) the harder it is for those species that make those places to continue the species. The more chance these species have to migrate to newer areas the better off they'll be. If the land during their trek to find new territory is even a little bit cleaner & safer the better off they'll be. So if you can clean the areas around you, which will benefit plant biodiversity, which in turn benefits insect biodiversity, etc, etc, on up the food chain, then that might give some of the rarer species a fighting chance. That there might be deer that eat the plants that wouldn't be there without something you did might give the mountain lion a meal as it sneaks through the town you live in in search a new place to live. I don't know if I'm making sense with this train of thought, but to me it makes some sort of sense.

And obviously more sabotage is nice, too.