Today, 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 moreIf you care about impact, our intuitions regarding goodness just kind of suck: When you ask most people to picture someone environmentally conscious they will conjure up an image of a garden, a detached home, maybe an electric car, buying local, etc...
stop trying to be a "good person"
Why 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.
resilience.org • The Ideology of Human Supremacy
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
While being obvious to many indigenous cultures, it may take quite of a mind-shift for us others to see ourselves as one (or even just interdependent) with nature and our overall environment, and to see any damage or destruction of that environment as a form of cannibalism (or self-destruction). But framing the unsustainable destruction of the... See more