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“Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.”
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
As the American ecologist Aldo Leopold deftly put it, we need to transform the way we see ourselves, ‘from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it’.41 Thanks to forty years of Earth-system research, we have a rapidly improving scientific understanding of how the Holocene epoch – with its stable climate, ample fresh water,
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
People are not provided for by their governments and cannot afford services at market rates and therefore rely on the developmental sphere.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Enlightenment is a shared enterprise.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
In the words of narrator George Manuel, “perpetual debt binds us firmly to the store.”
Astra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Robert Skidelsky • The economics of love: Following the heart, not the head
it’s only natural that powerful interests wouldn’t want to support genuinely alternative structures—why would an institution function in such a way as to undermine itself? Of course that’s not going to happen.
Peter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
While both acts of intended self-sacrifice derived from commitment to a transcendent ideal, Dubois sought to rescue the wilderness; Patkar, to save livelihoods and sustainable ways of life.73