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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline August 3, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Picture by author. Today’s Contemplation is composed of my comments on two different FB posts I came across yesterday. The first is a reply to a comment to a MSN article regarding a possible Covid-19-type lockdown scenario based upon […]
Accepting Our Lack of Agency
Accepting Our Lack of Agency An early morning picture at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia The last month has been focused on acceptance, and has been building up to the inexorable, immutable, and irrevocable truth that besets us within the confines of the set of predicaments we face. The one thing I constantly see and […]
Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities
Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities my now-slightly-outdated map of worldviews about collapse; right-click and open in a new tab to see it full-sized It’s interesting to listen to social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger try to reconcile his assessment of the state of the world with his vehement insistence that we have to try as hard […]
Beyond Hope
DERRICK JENSEN Beyond Hope THE MOST COMMON WORDS I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked. Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them the right to use, which means whatever tools will be ultimately ineffective […]
Against Climate Gloom and Doom
Against Climate Gloom and Doom When given a chance, life finds a way. Here are some reasons to keep hoping — and fighting. Environmental scholar Elin Kelsey suggests that the conservation of coastal ecosystems hinges on hope. Photo via Shutterstock. [Editor’s note: As the environmental problems facing our world compound, despair may feel like a rational […]
After the crisis, what kind of world do we want? Post-apocalyptic novels hold lessons — and warnings
After the crisis, what kind of world do we want? Post-apocalyptic novels hold lessons — and warnings ‘Art gives me hope. Will we take those values, that hope, and use them to imagine a better collective future?’ I had planned to write a totally different column this month. I had the idea, the books. I’d […]
Loving a vanishing world
Loving a vanishing world I want to talk about power — how much we have, and how we can use it meaningfully. But I’m going to start with despair. At a beach in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands recently — on my first real vacation in almost three years — I felt much of the loosening that I often feel at the […]
CRISIS, HOPE, AND PERMACULTURE
CRISIS, HOPE, AND PERMACULTURE A “Green New Deal” is on everyone’s lips, but how do we actually get there? Our brand new “Green is the New Silver (Lining): Crisis, Hope, and Permaculture,” (http://bit.ly/hope-permaculture) the first of 4 videos in our free-to-view “Permaculture Masterclass,” offers one possible answer. And if we do this right, we can […]
Why I’m Hopeful
Why I’m Hopeful A more humane, sustainable world lies just beyond the edge of the Status Quo. Readers often ask me to post something hopeful, and I understand why: doom-and-gloom gets tiresome. Human beings need hope just as they need oxygen, and the destruction of the Status Quo via over-reach and internal contradictions doesn’t leave […]
Our opposable thumb
Our opposable thumb “Stereoscopic vision, depth perception, certain emotions and other perceptions, and the ability to stretch our thumbs farther than most other species, the ability to build and destroy things, and many other traits individually or in combination separate us from other species, not necessarily all species though. Other animals with opposable thumbs include […]
Robert Macfarlane: “the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility”
Robert Macfarlane: “the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility” They say you should never meet your heroes. They’re wrong. I recently had the huge honour of spending almost an hour in conversation with Robert MacFarlane, author of 9 books including ‘Mountains of the Mind’, ‘The Old Ways’, ‘Landmarks’ and, most recently, […]
“Hope is not weak. Hope swims” – A great book by Solitaire Townsend.
“Hope is not weak. Hope swims” – A great book by Solitaire Townsend. I had big hopes for this book, “The Happy Hero” that Solitaire Townsend published in October 2017. But when the book arrived I was immediately put off by the combination of the cover and the title. I don’t know about you, but […]
