Saved by Keely Adler
Eating Ecosystems
Balanced, neither extracting too much from its component organisms nor pretending that a pantomime of a return to a pristine and ungoverned state will solve any problems at all. (Predation is inevitable in any system, but a working ecosystem starves out the ones who overfeed and provides cover for growth and for the long, continuous experiment of e... See more
Erin Kissane • against the dark forest
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 envi... See more
Substack • Seeing Wetiko
(“The whole of nature,” wrote the English author William Ralph Inge, “is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.”)
Michael Pollan • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“In an ecological system like this everything’s connected to everything else, so you can’t change one thing without changing ten other things.
Michael Pollan • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
I think that many of our biggest problems relate to the ways in which we have become so distanced from our environment.