yeah, we have dreamwidth set that way too. and we do the same with other webpages when we can. we're using a linux OS so that we can just set a universal page-background colour and text colour that will automatically apply to anything we open on our desktop. file folders, word-like text documents, notepad-like text documents, admin tools, art programs, even text input boxes on webpages, like the address bar and the reply window we're typing in now. we'd be scuppered without it, lol.
yeah, absolutely! we see it as our responsibility to change how we interact with the world to be more sustainable, like this, provided that we can. personally we were working towards this kind of a goal for our own living, until disability knocked us into 'just survive'. everything else has to take a backseat to making sure we stay alive. we're changing that gradually. it'll take years, but we'll reach a point we can start changing our situation again. for example we're able to talk to you which a year ago we wouldn't have been (we may not manage any more replies after this one though). and we'd be writing stories set in worlds like this already if this body's brain were capable. we write bits here and there as and when we can. ...we'd talk about the larger scale society-wide relevance too (we read your comment as including both personal-scale and wider-scale), if we had anything to really offer other than - yes!
...oh, we thought of something to possibly contribute on the society-scale front. you or any other folks who happen along may already be aware: in some places in the US there are laws specifically targeted towards preventing indigenous communities from living this way or in similar sustainable ways. New Mexico is the example we remember - there are legal requirements about supplying utilities in a centralised, industrialised manner, which were created mainly to break up the native settlements that used different, more sustainable (and less white) ways of obtaining and using things like water. ...we don't have any references to cite though, so readers aren't expected to believe us. maybe it's something to research if it interests you. we're only a source for vague awarenesses and hazy memories, these days. :P
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Date: 2017-08-04 09:17 pm (UTC)yeah, absolutely! we see it as our responsibility to change how we interact with the world to be more sustainable, like this, provided that we can. personally we were working towards this kind of a goal for our own living, until disability knocked us into 'just survive'. everything else has to take a backseat to making sure we stay alive. we're changing that gradually. it'll take years, but we'll reach a point we can start changing our situation again. for example we're able to talk to you which a year ago we wouldn't have been (we may not manage any more replies after this one though). and we'd be writing stories set in worlds like this already if this body's brain were capable. we write bits here and there as and when we can. ...we'd talk about the larger scale society-wide relevance too (we read your comment as including both personal-scale and wider-scale), if we had anything to really offer other than - yes!
...oh, we thought of something to possibly contribute on the society-scale front. you or any other folks who happen along may already be aware: in some places in the US there are laws specifically targeted towards preventing indigenous communities from living this way or in similar sustainable ways. New Mexico is the example we remember - there are legal requirements about supplying utilities in a centralised, industrialised manner, which were created mainly to break up the native settlements that used different, more sustainable (and less white) ways of obtaining and using things like water. ...we don't have any references to cite though, so readers aren't expected to believe us. maybe it's something to research if it interests you. we're only a source for vague awarenesses and hazy memories, these days. :P