Sublime

Living systems – watersheds, minerals, food, and land – are now being converted into ‘financialized’ assets which, having been rendered abstract, have become new tokens for speculation.

Increasing degraded soil’s carbon content at plausible rates58 could absorb about as much carbon as all human activity emits.

The Rainforest Action Network

In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery.

Albrecht studied the experiences of persistent drought and large-scale open-cut coal mining on individuals in Australia. In both cases, people exposed to environmental change experienced negative emotions, exacerbated by a sense of powerlessness and a lack of control.

It is a collision of two non-linear systems—the biosphere and biogeochemical cycles on one side and human institutions, organizations, and governments

life's agentive response to a range of pressures and constraints: “

UK Tar Sands Network,