1~Back in the Huts!

I don't know when men decided that Permanence was a Good Thing.
I think that I suspect Farming, and the investment of unceasing effort, and the perennial yearning for certainty that it nurtured. The acquisition of stored crops promoted rodent-proofing, and led to the stronghold, a safeguard against pillage.
Impermanence became regarded as inferior, vagrant,somewhat disreputable.

Surely this was a falsehood in its time, and is actually toxic now, in a world where the sheer weight and bulk of our appendages threatens to overwhelm other life forms and their habitats, and where the effort to compete in accumulations and implied status creates massive social and cultural injustice. From a society of inherited roles and material wealth (or poverty) we have had to become more mobile and fluid, changing our roles, as technology creates new opportunities, or become marginalised and redundant. We are a new race of hunter gatherers.
I coined a slogan in my youth, that I persuaded my sister to silkscreen onto teeshirts, that I then, to my surprise, actually managed to sell. It proclaimed "Back up the Trees!".
 The evolutionary recanting it suggests, I invoke again. We need to return to living in huts.

By this I mean lightweight, modest, modular structures, that leave little mark upon the land when they are moved. Affordable, so housing does not entail a massive lifetime repayment, and instead, a renewable licensed planning status, rather than our presentday permanent planning permission, that creates scarcity, and encourages housing to be seen as investment, rather than the lifehub of our communities.
These structures would be more in keeping with our fluid, ever-changing culture.


I'm not committed to how these should evolve. They can emerge using simple survivalist techniques, in backwood communities. Or they could stem from a similar, competitive race to that Google and other high tech companies have joined in developing intelligent cars. The more solutions, the merrier.

One certainty that runs through all, is that Humans seem to be good at making crises, then finding a way to fix them...