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How to Map Nothing
What’s missing from our map? Everything else. The forest has been made legible to lumber production. In the process, the entire ecological web of trees, shrubs, birds, bugs, moss, soil microbiota are stripped away. They didn’t fit into our map.
By the second generation of planting, there is a noticeable decline in forest health. Within one century: ... See more
By the second generation of planting, there is a noticeable decline in forest health. Within one century: ... See more
Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State
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
An extraordinary imaginative power to reinvent ourselves is at large in the world, though it is hard to say how it will counteract the dead weight of neoliberalism, fundamentalisms, environmental destructions, and well-marketed mindlessness.