Elephant Graveyard

S01 Episode 3: On being a criminal


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I am a criminal. Moreover, I'm an international criminal.

To survive, to be able to live on a small amount I have with the conditions I have:

- I steal power from the sun, which apparently is the property of the electric company.

- I steal water from the mountains, which is once again the property of the water company.

- I live on land that is publicly owned, free.

- I grow my own medicines. And all of this is illegal.

All of this is not allowed any more.

With my solar panels, I'm supposed to pay a fee for that power; with the water I'm supposed to pay for what I use; with the rubbish, even though I create very little because I compost almost everything, don't actually dump it in anywhere since I reuse everything, I'm supposed to pay for those services. But the one that I had to work on all weekend that truly bothers me is for my health.

My leg and my back are conditions that I created. My colon and my intestines are conditions that the medical profession created.

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