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When a culture chooses to believe anything that is not human can be property—a “resource” to burn, bulldoze, bastardize, pimp, torture, enslave, exterminate—this leads to the aggressive destruction of entire ecosystems, including old-growth forests, grasslands, wetlands, deserts, waterways, and other essential habitat. This destruction is speeding
... See moreJulie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
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Paul Gilding • The Great Disruption
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
For utilitarian thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and his contemporary followers, life as the maximizing of pleasure and the minimizing of pain implies that we can measure what is valuable. This fallacy equally applies to GDP, which fails to count unpaid work, all manner of relational goods and the shadow economy.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Malthusians, modern and classical, the reason we’re headed to hell in a handbasket is that people are rapacious and untamable, creatures of passion and impulse. Those drives will lead us inexorably to consume endlessly, but we’ve seen that people aren’t always like that, while corporations are always like that—the profit motive makes them so—which
... See moreRaj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
The goal of this work is to identify traditions in Asia that have been consonant with global imperatives in the Anthropocene – when humans have begun to significantly affect nature and the environment – not only by revealing different attitudes and ideals regarding nature (and other subjugated entities) but also by showing us different methods and
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
