Eco-communities as a social vision

Eco-communities as a social vision
Egalitarian and ecological communities, like the pictured East Wind (www.eastwind.org), are very close to our vision of an ecological society

07 February, 2008

The Landscape Is Changing by Depeche Mode, Album: Construction time again, 1983



The landscape is changing, the landscape is crying
Thousand of acres of forest are dying
Carbon copies from the hills above the forest line
Acid streams are flowing ill across the countryside

cause I don’t care if you’re going nowhere
Just take good care of the world
I don’t care if you’re going nowhere
Just take good care of the world

Now we’re rearranging there’s no use denying
Mountains and valleys cant you hear them sighing?
Evolution, the solution, almost certainty
Can you imagine this intrusion of their privacy?

cause I don’t care if you’re going nowhere
Just take good care of the world
I don’t care if you’re going nowhere
Just take good care of the world

Token gestures, some semblance of intelligence
Can we be blamed for the security of ignorance

cause I don’t care if you’re going nowhere
Just take good care of the world
I don’t care if you’re going nowhere
Just take good care of the world


A song about the huge changes in landscape by humans: mountain slopes, forests, rainforests, wetlands are deforestated, or laid bare with a dramatic and non reversible way in order to be replaced by chemical/GMO-based single-crop farming, by water-wasting golf fields or industries, by mining or construction activities, etc. The singer takes himself out the so called progress who leads to nowhere and begs for respecting nature.

You can hear this song in remix version in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHaxSDr2vN0

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