Rehabilitating Humanity to Exist in the Wild

From Timothy Freke's Principles of Native American Spirituality:

"(...)a prophesy of the Cree people. It read:
      "Only after the last tree has been cut down,
     only after the last river has been polluted,
     only after the last fish has been caught,
     only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Like the grass pushing through the tarmac, the natural wisdom of the primal peoples is trying to reach us through the cracks in our industrial civilization."

This book has been a helpful source in research for an upcoming painting of mine about rehabilitating the human animal to live in the wild. Like domesticated raccoons who are dropped off at an animal shelter, humans in our society have lost their ability to cope in straight nature. Of course, there are exceptions and I'd love to come into contact with these people to observe them and learn from them.

I've come to a conclusion that even solar and wind power technology is not enough to save our survival on this planet. Of all the 2012 theories out there, the one that struck me as most sensible is the one about solar flares leveling the power grid and evaporating our satellites. I will have to explain why in another post. What bothers me is that our rate of dependency on technology is spiking like never before and this is dangerous.

The slight lifestyle changes we've seen and made like recycling, popularizing the electric car, sustainable energy... these may well be our culture's ghostdance in a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable demise of our way of living. I think at some level, we are all aware of the fact that our current hyperconsumption and ingestion of the artificial will not continue working. Earth is like a giant filtration system, but we are filling her capacity with poisons that find their ways into our bodies. Like a drop of coloring in a glass of water, the pollution diffuses and permeates our biosphere. Our essentials are spoiled! Even if we stopped every form of pollution now, how many generations would have to suffer the ill effects before a balance was restored? Would it be possible? -or does some other mitochondrial becterium have to learn from our mistakes and evolve to thrive in our left-overs?

The painting or paintings that I'm grasping for will contain a group of people who are facing this metamorphosis. In the group are subgroups of different ages and mindsets that reveal different levels of coping with the ensuing change. Maybe it's a group of people fleeing a demolished city to find survival in the wilderness. What will they have to leave behind? What will they decide is unneccesary and what will they miss? Who will have an easier time changing to a new lifestyle?

"According to our modern, linear, 'myth of progress', once we were primitives like the Native Americans and other ancient peoples; now we are sophisticated and civilized and 'better'. But, for the cultures of the world with memories of the 'Old Ways', rather than progressing to something 'better', we have 'fallen', and now live in an Age of Darkness, as sad time of separation from spirit and disconnection from the simple, natural harmony of life."(Freke, p.22)