Sublime

This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs

En dramatisant jusqu’à l’extravagance, disons que c’est un conflit entre les humains modernes qui se croient seuls dans l’Holocène en fuite vers le Global ou en exode vers le Local ; et les terrestres qui se savent dans l’Anthropocène et qui cherchent à cohabiter avec d’autres terrestres sous l’autorité d’une puissance sans institution politique en

Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.

It will not be enough to protect “our” people; we will need to have the stamina of true solidarity, which defines “our people” as “all people.”

The growth machine has pushed humans beyond the limits of our minds—but it is also pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits.

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

A variety of factors are driving the “land-loss crisis,” as it’s come to be called. But the essential one is a marvel of engineering. What leaping carp are to Chicagoland, sunken fields are to the parishes around New Orleans—evidence of a man-made natural disaster. Thousands of miles of levees, flood walls, and revetments have been erected to manag