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America’s hiking culture is built on ego (www.theguardian.com)
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Outdoor recreation often slips into what I call an achievement-based relationship with nature. I’ve been guilty of it myself. Whether it’s “bagging peaks”, racing to finish the AT, or stamping the land with machines and monuments, the focus shifts from ecology to ego.

Being obsessed with Peak Bagging is not Solarpunk.

Nature is not your personal obstacle to challenge yourself against, it is a shared place of discovery you trample when you only see it as a place to endlessly, exhaustingly conquer.

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[-] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago

As long as they're not defacing, degrading, or destroying anything, its nobodies business how another person appreciates nature. Wtf is this gatekeeping bullshit?

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you read the article, a large portion of it is dedicated to people defacing and degrading the nature.

Hell the title card image is a tree with a bunch of initials carved into it.

Overall the headline blows, because the article had a large chunk dedicated to Native American Cultural Appropriation and other related criticisms.

Edit: My bad, I didn't see OP's message. Your comment is a pretty good take on OPs commentary. I'm not quite sure how OP tied that message to this article, this article is not really solarpunk focused.

I just read the article. I recommend doing that, it is quiet good.

[-] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago

To clarify, I'm replying to the OP, not the article.

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