The Pall Of Our Unrest

Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are all living with its consequences. When Europe began its pillage of the Western Hemisphere in 1492, Indigenous cosmologies of reciprocity, relationships with and duties of care for water, land, and living beings were uprooted, replaced with a worldview animated

There are some who frankly and boldly advocate the eradication of the last remnants of wilderness and the complete subjugation of nature to the requirements of—not man—but industry. This is a courageous view, admirable in its simplicity and power, and with the weight of all modern history behind it. It is also quite insane. I cannot attempt to deal

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.

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”