Alter-Nomad: Environmental Concerns

Sedentism is an attempt at domesticating nature. Unlike a nomad who coexists with his territory, a sedentary relentlessly uses it until exhaustion through industrial processes. A state is a hierarchical organization allowing us to accumulate wealth. Sedentism invented saving - storing cattle to eat it later - before making a business out of it. Thrifting natural resources without leaving time for nature to recover is a debt lifestyle. Society marginalizes those who produce less or those who are perceived as the weakest. Weapons were invented to obtain some plots of land: sedentism exacerbates violence.

Likewise, the neo-nomad takes natural resources without respecting the cycles of nature. The technologies that free us ask for important quantities of materials and energy. Access to digital technology is spreading, but there its expansion appears limitless. Neo-nomadism goes against historical nomadism by exhausting the earth while institutionalizing ephemeral products and services. The infrastructures of mobility induce huge wastes: storage spaces for digital services create enormous costs, estimated to 25$ per Go per month (source needed). Man is a wolf to man: Nature is an enemy to conquer and dominate.

All digital nomads can shut down this mindset to introduce environmental-friendliness. Historical nomads already paved the way with the concepts of slow travel and minimalism.