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Author: Eileen Crist

Eileen is recently retired from Virginia Tech where she taught for 22 years. Her writing focuses on Life’s crisis, its root causes, and pathways towards an ecological civilization. She’s an advocate of vegan food, a yoga teacher, and amateur gardener. She lives in Virginia with her husband and two dogs.
Artificial intelligence, Human supremacy

Grace versus dystopia

Earth is a place of exquisite vitality pervaded by the mystery of awareness. It is being catastrophically impoverished. Artificial intelligence will not bring back what is vanishing, nor replace it. If you wish to know transcendence, forget the machine. Look for an octopus teacher. Continue reading Grace versus dystopia

Eileen Crist17 November 202017 November 2020
Green economies, Mass extinction, Nature needs half, Overpopulation

On rational and sacred ground

Do people actually believe that humanity can cause a mass extinction and there will be no consequences? I am not talking only about consequences for human physical well-being, which will be numerous. I am talking about an everlasting legacy of sorrow to human posterity. Continue reading On rational and sacred ground

Eileen Crist31 August 202031 August 2020
Climate upheaval, Disarmament, Mass extinction

Before midnight

Even as the existential threats of mass extinction and climate upheaval are gathering intensity and becoming increasingly inescapable, the world’s superpowers and many other nation-states, in alignment with the corporate-industrial sector, are busy adding insult to injury. Continue reading Before midnight

Eileen Crist31 May 202031 May 2020
Defaunation, Habitat loss, Overpopulation

The COVID-19 mirror

If we refuse to heed the systemic underpinnings of COVID-19, the current epidemiological debacle will surely be dwarfed by other catastrophes in the not too distant future. Continue reading The COVID-19 mirror

Eileen Crist22 April 202022 April 2020

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