Anita Goldman: There must be no taverns in our parks
The journalist and author Anita Goldman, for DN’s readers a well -known name, has with her new book taken a step out in a previously foreign landscape for her. « The geography of the wild hop » has grown up as she, after she became a house and garden in Österlen in Skåne, has late in life has opened her eyes to the healing and nourishing power of nature.
– You can’t stress something in nature. It has its own pace, its own era. It understands when you have the opportunity to follow the spring development in a garden, she says.
In the book, Anita points out Goldman that the planetary emergency, that is, the ongoing climate crisis, is based on the fact that man has separated himself from creation. The once good and obvious relationship between man and nature has been damaged.
– If we are to save this planet, we must have some kind of relationship with the living. I think it is at that end that we have to start if we have any chance. This struggle will be long and tough, somewhere we have to nourish it.
The separation has been going on for a long time. Some claim that it began to crack in the joints already when man stopped hunting and gathering and began to grow the earth. Anita Goldman, for her part, joins those who believe that the mining took place in the 17th century, when nature would be chastised.
– That’s when you started to look at nature as something that would be arranged for man. It is the view of the time on the wild that lives and that has proven to be fatal.
The world that is Spring, where we destroy forests, dry wetlands and fill our fruit baskets in Sweden with exotic fruits, is a world of human terms that teal to nature. With the book, Anita Goldman hopes to get the reader to look at the world with other eyes.
– We must not take for granted that this is what a modern world looks like. The fir trees do not have to stand in a guard in straight joints and the fields where we grow our food need not be huge. Our parks do not have to be full of outdoor seating where you can drink wine. When the food shortages were great in Sweden during the First World War, potatoes were grown in Vasaparken in Stockholm.
Some people mean that man does best in taking a step back, so that nature gets a chance to win back their wildness. Others believe that it is human duty to do what she can to help nature find her true self. Anita Goldman believes in a middle ground.
– We can’t be hunters and collectors again, but we can turn off the tempo. The problem is not that we use the earth, but how we do it. I think slowness is a long -term perspective.
Read texts by Anita Goldman:
Anita Goldman: Potatoes more political than one might believe
Anita Goldman: The time we celebrate on New Year is a violent means of power
Anita Goldman: Man’s predatory operation on nature awakens the anger of the earth
