What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis
Or so E. F. Schumacher would have us believe. The author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed distinguished between “convergent problems” (where attempted solutions gradually converge on one answer) and more super-wickedesque “divergent problems” (where different answers appear to increasingly contradict each other the more they are
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Or so E. F. Schumacher would have us believe. The author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed distinguished between “convergent problems” (where attempted solutions gradually converge on one answer) and more super-wickedesque “divergent problems” (where different answers appear to increasingly contradict each other the more they are
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
We must question her values and assumptions. Most of all, we must question our reflexive attachment to her ideas, traditions, and rituals. This act is supremely stressful and contrary to some of our most embedded reflexes, but it’s an absolute necessity for a sane and sustainable future.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
As someone working in and seeking systems change, I can’t help but witness the clinging in how I relate to the ecological, social, and spiritual crises that we are entangled in. I cling to the despair that these specific systems we need are stuck and broken. I am attached to the contracted urgency of the problems that must be solved. I become so ob... See more