Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #39

"[Swaraj] is loosely defined as self-rule but it actually goes much deeper," says Kothari, who has written extensively on Swaraj and the ecological crisis. "It means my own autonomy, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, my independence, both as an individual and as a community. But it's not the American notion of individualism that I can

Our civilisation is “productive” for us. And so economics as it stands simply calls that the only kind of productivity there is. But there’s a much higher kind of productivity, in which things are produced for the benefit of all, or at least many more species than just the producer. […]