possible to observe the unfolding human attack on nature with horror, be determined to do whatever you can to stop it, and at the same time know that much of it cannot be stopped, whatever you do? Is it possible to see the future as dark and darkening further;
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The pool of carbon that really matters is life itself, as our friends at ETC Group say.4 The larger crisis is actually the erosion of biological and cultural diversity, and climate is just one particular dimension of that. It’s both a cause and consequence, but it’s not actually the thing we should focus on. What we really should focus on is the fu
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She suggests that global Greenspeak about biodiversity, ozone depletion, etc., has erased the local from environmental concerns by suggesting that the solution can only be global.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
One of the most poignant aspects of our industrialised food industry is the occasional glimpse the television camera affords us of what goes on behind the scenes, like the mournful gaze of that beast in the cattle truck I saw a few days ago.