On this shared post and it brought up the question of: do we fight for our right to party or can we leave alone our more than human kin on a dying planet?
someone on here posted a petition to keep the psytrance waldfrieden festival alive.
i have been there. yes it was “clean”, yes forest raves are amazing, but it still meant at least a week of continuous noise between setting up, the festival itself and then breaking everything down that are a massive stressor to a sensitive, vulnerable and already aching ecosystem with many inhabitants that are displaced and disoriented during this.
it is difficult to deny how unhealthy this is for the forest. there may not be trash left behind as we understand it, but noise and air and light pollution, changes to habitats and so on.
as us humans increasingly squat and take over nature’s habitats, i am fine with not doing raves deep in the forest anymore. an open field close to industrial agriculture and roads? ok, thats adding some more human activity on already humanifies lands. in the woods is a hard no for me as i grow older.
what are your opinions on this?