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 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.
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