if i had tons of money. tons and tons of money.

(literally 100 whole metric tons consisting only of $100 bills)

i would:

• buy forests/jungles/islands (as well as politicians) and declare these areas "protected national parks"
• buy land that's currently being used for cultivating palm oil and mining lithium/etc. and reforest them, reintroduce native plants and just wait for the animals to come back
• hypocritically travel the world via plane, tuktuk, bicycle, boat...etc. tbh i now prefer speed boats to slow-ass sailboats.
• start volunteer organizations for girls on gap year who want to plant corals
• start educational organizations to teach people how to live in the jungle/forest/desert/etc....i think it's scary how we're forgetting how to live in these so-called "primitive" ways (which are actually very sophisticated and not easy to learn)...even people from the jungle are coming out of the jungle to go to "normal" school to learn how to add and subtract and read and write but they're forgetting how to climb trees and gather medicinal herbs. i think it's sad that this way of life is not really an option for anyone anymore just because (1) deforestation (2) the modern world encroaching (3) people are losing the knowledge ; people act like in 2024, all things are possible, but the one thing i want -- to live in the jungle -- is out of reach for us. everyone can aspire to live in the city now. but how many people can honestly aspire to live in the jungle anymore? there might be room for the odd girl who somehow marries a tribe member and lives with them but that's it. i wish it were a lifestyle choice option for the whole world without encroaching on anyone's territory. i wish we could reforest the world and give people the option to live this way...

i'm becoming increasingly anti-high-tech...