You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction (Published 2023)

misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same

The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio

Sure, but the way to stop a tipping point is not to freak out about 30% of the Amazon. It’s to devolve power and control to the people who are on the frontlines of that struggle and to return the power to them to self-govern their relationships to land and living systems and to fight back against the desecration of the sacred.

We need to see ourselves as part of a symbiotic, greater whole and start planning for a “long now” that looks deep into the future. This means changing the storytelling formula […] so that the main character is no longer the human but instead our planet.