Why We Need New Words for Nature
We cannot SUSTAIN anymore. We couldn’t sustain in 2010. Sustainability is no longer enough. When something is so depleted, we can’t sustain. We can’t sustain when we’re living at the point of starvation. We can’t sustain a workload that’s running us into the ground. We can’t sustain a toxic relationship, no matter what communication skills we learn
... See moreSamantha Garcia, Martha Johnston, • Regenerative Business: How to Align Your Business with Nature for More Abundance, Fulfillment, and Impact
there’s also a rising widespread realization that we must adopt this framing if we are to solve the humanity-level problems that it seems we must solve. We might say that viruses and glaciers and CO2 and storms and heat have only so much parental patience for our infantile, childish behavior.
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
The overwhelming threat of climate change has amplified the sense that global capitalism is out of control or that the best we can hope for is to avert catastrophe.