In an age of too much, too fast, too late we have already shoved the Seussian idea of ecology into the recycle bin of useless messages. I would rage against this idiotic cotton candy confection–but to what purpose? I participated in the very cultural act it’s supposed moral speaks against as I went to the [...]
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Progress, Innovation and Improvement: Useful Ideas
Want to bait a hook intended for humans? Use the worm that turns on “improvement.” This worm will wriggle any old way you choose. Want to assess your life…what improvements have made you a better person? Define better? More caring, compassionate, open, critical yet expansive and responsive… Or do you prefer selfish, detached, singular, less [...]
Competition Is Cultural Inbreeding
So, against my better judgement, let’s pretend we can make do with this soul-crushing, resource destroying economy that we call “Capitalism.” It’s just a name that means something like a dogma (which can be considered a law or rules but also a faith) that says a capital economy, and really, a way of life as [...]
Scrape ‘em off, Save yourself: Climate Catastrophe and Education
I saw this comment today on the FB regarding an Education article: “I think public education must be like climate change. It is much easier to oppose than to support.” Hmmm…one is huge and absolutely beyond comprehension and makes no sense to so many people; how can our puny ways alter a geologic process that [...]
Absolutism in the Face of Climate Disaster
What more can I offer anymore but anger and resignation. We are such petty creatures. Pathetic in unrestrained desires and petulance. Gaze upon the divine image in the guise of politicians and interest groups screaming about their twisted moralities. Dominate and exploit. Hateful. Climate catastrophe is looming. If there is one way in which I [...]
The Egalitarian Eagerness of Promethean Fire: The One Story
Here’s my take on the how the world unfolds. We are moving toward climate disaster. We are moving toward global cultural “synchronization.” We are moving toward global mercenary militarization. We are moving toward a “burning” earth. We are moving toward the end. I am less than hopeful that a catastrophe that is truly Biblical will [...]
Denial Strata: Economic Geologists and Corporate Industrial Fabrications
You know how sometimes you’re just walking along minding your own Ps and Qs when out of the blue there comes a synchronicity of events that brings a kind of clarity that was formerly “felt” but unrealized? This happened to me recently and it’s sort of a “duh” moment–I mean the following seems obvious when [...]
(Lack of) Sustainability Articles in HT
Today’s HT has much to recommend it, particularly as it offers many articles that focus on the issue of sustainability, notably the entire “Down to Earth” section. The Errant applauds this and wants to highlight bits and pieces of each in an attempt to stretch and perhaps even challenge the notion presented to us as [...]
