Eco Interference

Eco Interference

By: Erreh Svaia

Caprine Dispersion

I remember a dream just a couple of weeks ago, in which I supposedly belonged to a kind of urban guerrilla that used to plant trees in the city, yes, the modus operandi was a bit extreme since the guerrillas located abandoned houses, land without use or other private spaces to arrive unexpectedly, break the concrete in the floor, dig a deep ditch, plant a tree and leave quickly from there, all in a matter of just a few minutes, with an accuracy similar to that of the equipment that get ready the cars in the “pits” during the car races, or as a musical set by the Ramones, leaving just before the police arrive.

There is a project called "Extreme Reforestation" in the city, I do not know if its techniques include this type of actions, I doubt it, but I have seen so many abandoned houses, wasted private spaces, parks or river beds that could be used as large green spaces that could become lungs for the city, in the dream it was darkly funny to plant three or four trees in the front of an old abandoned house, to give that push to nature so that it could devour us and turn the course of civilization behind , without the ideological seriousness of a John Zerzan or the violence of a Ted Kaczynski.

I remember a park near my parents' home in which part of the neighbors debated heatedly whether to turn it into a park with leafy trees, or one with sports courts for young people, without being able to agree and with an increasingly heated discussion, on one occasion I remember that two soccer goals were put in each of the ends of the park and the zones of a court of this type were delineated, the reaction of the other side was to fill the park with young trees at night, furtively, it was a spectacle similar to see the attack of a guerrilla, that space woke up with dozens of trees planted that nobody dared to remove, respect for nature was imposed, leaving only a perimeter space for a jogging track and a small space for a small multipurpose court.

We have a battle against the same civilization, I am not against the development of our city, but against the soulless advance of concrete over nature, the conservation of spaces like the Santa Catarina River is paramount, the possibility of creating a more appropriate and more sheltered in that area is imperative, we must use an area that is by nature's right and help it to become a more suitable space as a sanctuary for some species of animals or plants that already live there, the same nature has already claimed us several times and in a furious way.

I see whole colonies where there is not a single tree, my children sometimes ask me "Why are there no birds here?" The answer is simple, "Because there are no trees", there are reckless plants that easily survive the extreme temperatures of the city, there are plants that would be impossible to propitiate their appearance and that would demand too much care, personally, I have already verified that plants can survive in the climate of the city and that they do not require so much care, at last plants, and end a way to recover a bit nature that we have savagely stolen, I definitely do not see myself in violent actions like Kaczynski, nor in those somewhat heavy joke plan like we saw in the tape 12 Monkeys, but If I see myself as a forest guerrilla, breaking cement, digging a ditch quickly and leaving a tree in almost every corner of the city, take advantage of all those abandoned spaces, public or private, what you need We are more green areas, more lungs for this city, this before it is too late.