Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
A central message is we cannot keep extracting from the earth energy systems for the profit and short-term gain of the predatory elite. Mother Earth needs the love and care of people to maintain Country, Living Waters, and multispecies justice. The sustainability of all life in our universe requires implementing Indigenous traditional knowledge and
... See moreGreg Campbell • Total Reset: Realigning with our timeless holistic blueprint for living
This suggests a general operating principle similar to the Leopoldian land ethic, often summarized as “what’s good is what’s good for the land.” In our current situation, the phrase can be usefully reworded as “what’s good is what’s good for the biosphere.” In light of that principle, many efficiencies are quickly seen to be profoundly destructive,
... See moreKim Stanley Robinson • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Can the ensemble – or perhaps gamelan – of these forces attain a momentum that may be able to develop a vision of sustainability as a new transcendence?
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
with contemporary approaches to risk is the illusion of safety as a human right that can be controlled as a variable in advance. It cannot. In fact, there is no such thing as safety in Aboriginal worldviews. We have no word for it in our languages. Safety provided by an invisible hierarchy is complete anathema to our way of being.