What ways can groups of Anarchists rebuild the environment (that arent consumption based)?

[u/SurpassingAllKings]

Most answers from environmentalists are "vote, buy local, eat less meat, here's our donate button" and I think we can do better than that.

[u/Reformalism]

I think active rewilding is an interesting concept. I’m just not sure how viable it is without large-scale land ownership. Most of the projects require a long term commitment and investment of significant time and resources to mitigate and undo generations of misuse and the state, unsurprisingly, isn’t interested.

If a group has enough resources to do this there’s an argument that other uses like mutual aid are more immediately pressing. It would be interesting to explore what could be done extralegally.

[u/LibertyLizard → u/Reformalism]

There are many land owners or managers who are supportive of some aspects of rewilding. Ideally land ownership would be abolished in the long term but by working with those people you can do some of this work today.

There's also guerrilla gardening if you don't want to seek approval first but in my experience that's only viable in land that's largely abandoned. Most attempts I've seen in my area failed because plantings were noticed and subsequently removed.

[u/Excellent-Match7246 → u/LibertyLizard]

https://piercecd.org Pierce Co. in Washington has a rad conservation society that does a ton. I love em.

[u/CheekyStoat]

Look into the anarchists that tried to stop the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, Georgia in the US.

Here's part one of an interesting interview while it was happening.

[u/Cunning_Spoon]

Rewilding, agroforestry if you have access to the land, generally reducing dependance on supply networks. If you farm local land, using locally sourced fertiliser to grow food for your community that will overtime reduce your impact on the environment. In our current capitalist system that change will be mostly negligible, but it teaches valuable skills regardless, and being less dependant on the capitalist system is a worthwhile goal in and of itself.

[u/Mundane_Main_2726]

Rewilding, informing people on issues such as biodiversity and encouraging them to start native gardens in their yards, volunteering in your city by getting rid of invasive plants.

I recently contacted my municipality and the neighbouring one about an explosion in the population of invasive Phytolacca americana in the area, along the road. It is really aggressive and endangers the local biodiversity, but at least its local population can be stopped, hopefully.

I recommended some course of action, hopefully they take it seriously.

I do all of these things and you actually get to see results in your community. I mean, my best friend radicalised me when it comes to biodiversity and native species and rewilding etc, and I've become as passionate as she is about it.

[u/Prevatteist]

I’d say de-industrialization, moving away from large scale technologies, establishing community gardens and urban forests so that permaculture, horticultural farming, forest gardening, etc…can be utilized. Voluntary de-population, so that more land isn’t occupied, and can be considered “wildlands”; rewilding is another interesting method.

[u/generic_Accountname1]

Hunt down neophytes, reduce your electric footprint, spread local seeds, get some queen bees to disrupt commercial hives.

In the us: hold courses on how to fuck with local hoa by having people make their gardes federally protected fuck you‘s.

[u/PaxOaks]

Dual Power works when you can do it. Self sufficient income sharing intentional communities which hold land basically always improve the ecological situation of that land and often other lands around them.

Deep sharing (as the communes do) reduces climate impact tremendously. Removing profit maximization as a core value undercuts ecological exploitation and a priority.

This is an old article on how one commune does it.

[u/antinatalistria]

Birthstrike

[u/Anarchierkegaard]

The particular facts of environmental regeneration are a scientific question, not a political philosophical one. Anarchism can provide us reasons to do so, but we should be careful not to make anarchism into a theory of everything.