ABSTRACT
Advocating global human mobility as the primary action for equitable living on the earth will be measured in terms of access, flexibility, and accountability. The chapter references the power of cartography as a tool to claim terrain during the colonial era to the establishment of new cartographical lines criss-crossing the earth to support human migration between the so-called Global South and Global North. With global human mobility comes global reconciliation between peoples and equal access to the world’s resources not to increase consumption but to share wealth. Exploring the concept of ‘wearing our ecology’ where human mobility is synced with the environment, merging humans and landscapes, topographies and geographies, the chapter threads human-ecology-Earth in an interconnected singular coexistence. It rethinks the present structures guiding our living conditions, the solidity and interior stasis of our homes, high consumption and waste production to wearable mobile external ‘homes’, ‘slow living’, and a reduced impact on our environments. ‘Wearing our ecology’ requires far greater acknowledgement and connectedness between humans, cultures, and the earth’s environments than presently exists, especially in rich Western nations. This chapter lays the ground for new city and rural habitations explored in the following chapter ‘Environmental Adaptations’.
