FORMAT
This discussion paper aims to explore bamboo's 'placedness' in an Australian cum Tasmanian CIVICparadigm where status quoism is demonstrably antithetic to the plant. Typically bamboo is called out for being a weed and a plant that "does not belonging in our landscape." The same might be said for European trees, wheat barley, oats and hard hooved animals.
People move from place to place typically taking things with them that they can rely upon to sustain life. European colonialism brought plants from elsewhere and were slow to discover that new ecologies needed to be developed if a sustainable antipodean placedness is to be founded in a place that wasn't asv empty as imagined from elsewhere.
Also, the paper is intended to be read 'rhizomatically' keeping in mind that the rhizome forms a model for an epistemological alternative to Western rationalism. As The Budda tells us ... “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
We needto to embrace disruption and change and do it early early. To react decades later We'll find that we just can't fight innovation. We all live together on a single planet, which is threatened by our actions. If we don't come to some kind of global cooperation, nations, regions and 'places' will not be on the right level to tackle the problems that diminish them, whether it's climate change or whether it's technological disruption. It is the time for change and the the time is now.
It is worth remembering, bamboo always
returns to the earth gently!
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