No wonder a civilization steeped in the polarization of Good versus Evil wreaks such havoc on the rest of nature. No wonder so many creatures are dwindling and disappearing, their homes ravaged with toxins, their forests transformed to stumps
David Abram • Becoming Animal
Fully recognizing that non-human plants, animals and others have their own worlds which are fundamentally different and unknowable to us is to begin to end human exceptionalism and human supremacism.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We need to seriously evaluate our consumption habits. Buy less and buy better on Commons.
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instagram.comToday, the constant onslaught of damning information about environmental degradation is impossible to ignore. To survive, the human psyche resorts to a cognitive dissonance. I couldn’t simultaneously feel the weight of shrinking biodiversity in the Amazon, coral bleaching in the Maldives and koalas caught in Australian bushfires every day because
... See moreWhy don’t we react in unbridled outrage to the devastation of the natural world taking place before our eyes? A major reason is that we don’t realize what we’ve lost.