Yesterday a wave of anxiety came over me as i watched from my front door a group of humans cut down a beautiful spruce tree. Why? It was in the way of a new power cable they are installing. It took decades to grow and within thirty minutes using thier diesel powered death machines it was gone. We are all victims and perpetrators at the same time, but not for much longer.
Thank you for the perfect comment, Craig. Our unrepentant desires require horrible behavior. Most people don’t notice. Some don’t care. Either way, we’re in a death trap. Not for much longer, though, as you wrote. 😢
This is a great opportunity for our community to speak up and voice their concerns as we ride out the perfect storm!
I'd like to canvas the ecological and societal implications and drivers behind the latest military carnage in the Middle East, contemporaneous with World War Three unfolding in Europe.
Hi mate, how do you feel like a dive together into the genocide in Palestine and the wider Middle East being a diversion from the failure of the NATO war on Russia, being fought in Ukraine, and more importantly, the ongoing non-linear collapse of the biosphere.
Everything from now on, as we circle the drain of collapse, will be a diversion from the single most important issue unfolding, biosphere collapse.
All of these societal catastrophes are horrendous in the extreme and are major contributors to the overall catastrophe, but they divert us from the biggest, most immediate existential threat.
We could quote our discussion that I embedded below:
Warmongering and the Climate Crisis | Kevin Hester
It would be an opportunity to combine anti-imperialism, the anti-war movement and wars implications for the ecosystem and we could discuss the futility of young people ‘protesting’ for ‘change’ in these dystopian times.
Get out on the streets for Gaza of course, but begging the corporations, who own our governments, to reign in the corporations, who own our governments, has to meet the definition of futility and a waste of precious time.
The convergence of so many existential threats, at the same time, is robbing every one of the opportunity, to make the most of every peaceful moment we have.
I see many of my online community, posting like hell about the injustices, often only into a tiny Eco chamber, I’m yet again “Guilty as charged your Honor”.
We all really do need to talk about this, as the clock ticks down on this set of living arrangements.
We’ve always had the difficult discussions together, I’m sure this ‘angle’ has merit and could open an important train of thought!
I doubt that we have much longer to speak truth to power but I’d jump at the chance for one more collaboration.
Yesterday a wave of anxiety came over me as i watched from my front door a group of humans cut down a beautiful spruce tree. Why? It was in the way of a new power cable they are installing. It took decades to grow and within thirty minutes using thier diesel powered death machines it was gone. We are all victims and perpetrators at the same time, but not for much longer.
Thank you for the perfect comment, Craig. Our unrepentant desires require horrible behavior. Most people don’t notice. Some don’t care. Either way, we’re in a death trap. Not for much longer, though, as you wrote. 😢
This is a great opportunity for our community to speak up and voice their concerns as we ride out the perfect storm!
I'd like to canvas the ecological and societal implications and drivers behind the latest military carnage in the Middle East, contemporaneous with World War Three unfolding in Europe.
Hi mate, how do you feel like a dive together into the genocide in Palestine and the wider Middle East being a diversion from the failure of the NATO war on Russia, being fought in Ukraine, and more importantly, the ongoing non-linear collapse of the biosphere.
Everything from now on, as we circle the drain of collapse, will be a diversion from the single most important issue unfolding, biosphere collapse.
All of these societal catastrophes are horrendous in the extreme and are major contributors to the overall catastrophe, but they divert us from the biggest, most immediate existential threat.
We could quote our discussion that I embedded below:
Warmongering and the Climate Crisis | Kevin Hester
https://kevinhester.live/2022/05/13/warmongering-and-the-climate-crisis/
It would be an opportunity to combine anti-imperialism, the anti-war movement and wars implications for the ecosystem and we could discuss the futility of young people ‘protesting’ for ‘change’ in these dystopian times.
Get out on the streets for Gaza of course, but begging the corporations, who own our governments, to reign in the corporations, who own our governments, has to meet the definition of futility and a waste of precious time.
The convergence of so many existential threats, at the same time, is robbing every one of the opportunity, to make the most of every peaceful moment we have.
I see many of my online community, posting like hell about the injustices, often only into a tiny Eco chamber, I’m yet again “Guilty as charged your Honor”.
We all really do need to talk about this, as the clock ticks down on this set of living arrangements.
We’ve always had the difficult discussions together, I’m sure this ‘angle’ has merit and could open an important train of thought!
I doubt that we have much longer to speak truth to power but I’d jump at the chance for one more collaboration.
I couldn’t agree more, Kevin. Yet again, young people are caught in the cross-hairs. Our governments could do better. Much better.
Thank you for your comment. Thank you, too, for restacking my post.