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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
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The belief that human behaviour can be perfectly modelled, predicted and controlled entrains as a consequence the collapse of equitable relations between individuals and trust in institutions, and the substitution of algorithmic certainty for any semblance of participatory, democratic society. There is no appeal to collective, contestable
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
resilience.org • The Ideology of Human Supremacy
A central message is we cannot keep extracting from the earth energy systems for the profit and short-term gain of the predatory elite. Mother Earth needs the love and care of people to maintain Country, Living Waters, and multispecies justice. The sustainability of all life in our universe requires implementing Indigenous traditional knowledge and
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