G Like by Michele Leonardi architect

G LIKE

GIANTS

by Michele Leonardi architect © October 2022

G L I K E W A T C H

B Y M I C H E L E L E O N A R D I A R C H I T E C T

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G L I K E W A T C H

G LIKE WATCH Animated Gif by Michele Leonardi © October 2022.

G L I K E B U C K L E

B Y M I C H E L E L E O N A R D I A R C H I T E C T

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G L I K E B U C K L E

G LIKE BUCKLE Animated Gif by Michele Leonardi © October 2022.

WE ARE NOT TOO MANY :

WE ARE GIANTS !

Beyond the statistical data on population growth, which tell us that birth rates are in generalized decline all over the world, where by more and where by less, to think that the billions of people populating the Earth are reducible to a problem wrongly and perhaps even in bad faith called "overpopulation" is to have a lazy mind that is too small to contain the complexity all around us. There are not too many of us at all. With a minimum of cooperation, single societies, single social groups, families, people who populate this world, can do great things. Humans are not as cooperative as insects, like bees, ants and termites. But no one has ever asked so much of us. Not yesterday, in the past, much less tomorrow or today. Why is that?

Today's humanity would only need a minimum of cooperation, while otherwise each of us can very well mind our own business and in our own way. So in this sense we can do great things, things like giants. We are not dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, that is, all the generations and generations of men and women who have gone before us. We are all just giants. We are not too many. If we are billions rather than millions there will be a reason, and it is not at all that we "copulate too much". While for too greedy hands and dried-up minds not even one planet for each would be sufficient. It will turn out well, maybe not for me, but for the new generations it will turn out well. There is no room for nonsense.

We need neither heroes, nor saints, nor geniuses, nor sacrifices, nor resilience and other such futile efforts. Yes, saints, heroes, geniuses and efforts are also needed, sometimes, but not now that we are so numerous, billions. A little cooperative effort is needed now, but from everyone. Once again: there is no room for nonsense. Not now, not ever. If we want trade to thrive, first we must make people thrive, and hence families, the basic unit of all societies, currently miserably one-way "mercantile", in this world.

Otherwise your stained glass beads that you once bartered slaves with in Black Africa, your goods and services, will end up that no one can buy them from you anymore. It would be time to get rid of slavery once and for all. You tell people that if you don't sell colored beads in large quantities, which you call "economic growth”, then it ends up that you can't buy enough gas and oil and raw materials for your "needs”.

But have you ever wondered how many things you, and all of us, could do without? Have you ever realized how much garbage you produce? Take a closer look at what you bought, you too: they sold you garbage. By dint of selling stained glass beads you got screwed there, you too, by the immense bead scam. …And what about me, and to whom do I sell my stained glass beads if not to a society that is no more, annihilated and atomized into an infinity of mere individuals? Just individuals, nothing more, goods. No society.

M.L.

T H E M A R I N D U C T

THE MARINE WATER AQUEDUCT

D E E P B L U E

SEAWATER FOR OVER 200,000 POOLS OF

L O S A N G E L E S

D U N E S

THE MARINDUCT OASIS SYSTEM

T H E P E N S I L E P O O L S

BY BRIDGE-POOLS

WATERFUN & SPORTING BATHS

THE ROLLER COASTER OF STAIRS

A LABYRINTH OF STAIRS

FOR SEAWATER FUN PARKS

F O R H U M A N B E I N G S

N O T F O R C L O N E S

S T A I R S I N T H E W A T E R

A SEAWATER SPORTING & FUN PARK

T H E N A U T I L U S

A VILLAGE IN THE DESERT

T H E B L U E S H E L L

A HOME WITH A THERMAL

SHIELD OF SAND

T H E Z E B R A S

CHAIRS & TABLES BY POLYCARBONATE

& ALUMINIUM TUBES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Even the longest journey begins with a first step! Systemic Habitats is on line since the 18th of May 2012. This website was created to publish online my ebook "Towards a different habitat" on the contemporary architecture and urbanism. Later many other contents were added. For their direct or indirect contribution to its realisation strarting from 2012, we would like to thank: Roberto Vacca, Marco Pizzuti, Fiorenzo and Raffaella Zampieri, Antonella Todeschini, All the Amici di Marco Todeschini, Ecaterina Bagrin, Stefania Ciocchetti, Marcello Leonardi, Joseph Davidovits, Frédéric Davidovits, Rossella Sinisi, Pasquale Cascella, Carlo Cesana, Filippo Schiavetti Arcangeli, Laura Pane, Antonio Montemiglio, Patrizia Piras, Bruno Nicola Rapisarda, Ruberto Ruberti, Marco Cicconcelli, Ezio Prato, Sveva Labriola, Rosario Francalanza, Giacinto Sabellotti, All the Amici di Gigi, Ruth and Ricky Meghiddo, Natalie Edwards, Rafael Schmitd, Nicola Romano, Sergio Bianchi, Cesare Rocchi, Henri Bertand, Philippe Salgarolo, Paolo Piva detto il Pivapao, Norbert Trenkle, Antonietta Toscano, Gaetano Giuseppe Magro, Carlo Blangiforti, Mario Ludovico, Riccardo Viola, Giulio Peruzzi, Ahmed Elgazzar, Warren Teitz, and last but not least Lena Kudryavtseva. M.L.