To this water, I pay homage. To the rain which falls, to the rivers, the dams, the builders and plumbers, I pay homage. To the oceans and the sun, the great trade winds and the world's turning, I pay homage. To all the cycles which bring us clean air, clear water, to all living things, all the earth, I pay homage. In this collection of web pages, I have discussed air, water, food, energy, and written briefly about some of the systems which mediate our connections to the world.
Air is a gas, water is a liquid, soil and minerals incorporate the solid.
Living beings and systems combine all these in their make-up. Energy and information are found in the way that these things are organised. Air is difficult to own, it's a gas and hard to fence off. As the quality of air gets worse there will be an attempts to own better areas and reserve them for the use of certain people. The privileged will want less poisoned air.