Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape

That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.

As soon as enough people in contemporary societies progress beyond adolescence, the entire consumer-driven economy and egocentric lifestyle will implode. The adolescent society is actually quite unstable due to its incongruence with the primary patterns of living systems. The industrial growth society is simply incompatible with collective human ma

My definition of disaster became broader and broader, and I now see much of our everyday life—for its alienation and its destruction of souls and memory, as well as natural and social places—as a kind of disaster we escape temporarily in those golden moments of uprisings and carnivals. Or reclaiming the story.

But make no mistake: our predicament is similar to that of displaced native people. We too are isolated from the land. The only real difference is that we’ve done it to ourselves. Of course, it would be obscene to equate the predicament of habitat-deprived white people with that of displaced native people around the world, but there are undeniable