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Ecocide: despair, greif and anxiety

8/6/2017

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"What brought you here?"  That's the question Paul Kingsnorth, the "recovering environmentalist" and founder of The Dark Mountain Project encourages participants to answer on a retreat to find a way forward within the ongoing collapse. Brian Calvert, writing about his experience on the retreat in a fine essay for High County News gives the same answer I would.  Perhaps you too.

What brought you here? This culture, these takers. My life’s history is tied to their system of plunder and its superstructure: a culture of greed and power; locomotives, interstates and Manifest Destiny; pavement and parking lots; extirpation and extinction; genocide, slavery, racism; combustion, warheads, oligarchs. The takers’ mentality runs through the environmental debate, too, and now we face the prospect of their bright-green vision, a dying world where humans have mastered, godlike, the technologies of dominion: massive solar arrays, geo-engineered shade, gleaming hydroponic cities and sweeping fields of mono-cultured soy — the output of a cultural algorithm that has been running thousands of years, a system of consumption and motion that will do anything to keep its wheels turning.  Brain Calvert (HCN July 24, 2017)

We need a new epistemology.

EJT

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