adaptability - us + them... a case of consciousness???

i have been pondering the idea of what allows some species, or even individuals within a species to be more adaptable to their environments than others, and furthermore what that really means.

in a lot of reading that i have done in the past couple of years the idea of "consciousness" plays a significant role in helping us understand why things happen, and also why we choose to do these things - live a certain way or make particular choices.

to simplify what i am talking about and to draw it back to the previous posts i have made about the adaptability of native australians, we can look at the way in which a tribe would choose a particular dwelling space at particular time of the year in relation to climatic factors. 

in summer months a camping ground would be selected upon the premise of proximity to water, ample shading, access to breeze - access to food resources and finally there would be a decision made to move onward once the resources in the area became scarce and unable to replenish themselves. there was a certain level of consciousness involved in every decision made - therefore establishing a strong report with the environment around them - a responsibility to the mother earth that fed, housed, clothed them. each member of the tribe had an immediate relationship - not only to one another - but also to the landscape.

in terms of eating, dwelling, moving, making, breathing - it seems obvious that the indigenous australian was far more in sync with the decision making process involved in every daily activity and how through engaging with the landscape they ensured the most comfortable lifestyle possible. additionally there was a spirituality involved in this relationship.

compare this to the current western model in which we live and it begins to become apparent that it made be perhaps our lack of "conciousness' in what we consume and do that has resulted in a non-sustainable life cycle.

we move in fossil fuel vehicles which require the earth to be dug up from beneath us, our food comes from farms 1000's of kilometers away on trucks and boats which run on pollutants also, our houses require air conditioning and touch the earth heavily with little consideration of the climatic zones they are within, we make things and buy and sell to other corners of the earth - cut down trees for palm oil plantations and so on etc...

for me until this level of "consciousness" is addressed then the "sustainability" issue can not be appropriately dealt with. we continually look for high tech solutions to high tech problems - however many of us do not even comprehend the smallest details of our daily life, such as "where does my meat come from?"... 

my vision for woodfordia is starting to shape - addressing the human connection to the elements of 

eating, dwelling, moving, making, breathing

in their apparent simplicity - how complex they have become - we need to start a shift in "consciousness" of people to enforce change... that is what the "think farm" needs to become! thinking in terms of "conscious thought" rather than developing new technologies as such...