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Category: Mass extinction

Mass extinction, Technoscepticism

The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix

How did we as a humanity lose touch with what is the most precious thing of all—our home planet and our relationship with it? How could we (let) unwind the breathtaking beauty of this Earth, the onetime gift of a living planet, and our love for our Earthling kin? Continue reading The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix

Eileen Crist14 February 2022
Human alienation, Human supremacy, Mass extinction

Broken mirror

The real way forward, away from suffering and toward hope, lies in denouncing the root cause of our predicament, the human-supremacy story, the destructive platitude of human specialness. Continue reading Broken mirror

Eileen Crist7 December 202110 February 2022
Agroecology, Factory farms, Green living, Habitat loss, Mass extinction, Nature needs half, Overpopulation

Four frameworks for Agroecology

We must make food in harmony and collaboration with nature: healing for the planet, replenishing soils, with kindness to animals and reverence to plants, wholesome and available to all people. That is the way of Agroecology. Continue reading Four frameworks for Agroecology

Eileen Crist3 September 202110 February 2022
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 202010 February 20221 Comment
Human-nature dualism, Local nature, Mass extinction, Natural history

The zebras of Kidderminster

In a grand revival of natural history lies a significant proportion of the work that needs to be done if humanity is to awaken to the appalling crisis of life’s erasure. Continue reading The zebras of Kidderminster

Joe Gray10 August 202010 February 2022
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 202010 February 20221 Comment

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