The catastrophe I want, to use your phrase, is one provoked when the people demand — and the system can’t deliver on — two really important, very pragmatic sets of rights. The rights of Mother Earth, and the right of people to have access to the resources required to create productive, dignified, and ecologically sustainable livelihoods.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The catastrophe I want, to use your phrase, is one provoked when the people demand — and the system can’t deliver on — two really important, very pragmatic sets of rights. The rights of Mother Earth, and the right of people to have access to the resources required to create productive, dignified, and ecologically sustainable livelihoods.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Where American environmentalists were hypocritical, driving thousands of miles in a polluting automobile to enjoy “unspoilt wilderness,” men like Chandi Prasad Bhatt integrated their lives with their work.