The location, ecosystem, and government to which we become subjected, or to which we default, at birth determine whether we flourish or wither, live or die.
In 2023 many organisms without air conditioning perished. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen write in An Inconvenient Apocalypse that for a livable future, along with creating new political and economic systems, we’d do well to phase out our current association of a good life with industrialized materialism, and instead cultivate a ‘creaturely’ worldview.
In Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth urges us to “reimagine the shape of progress” to move from “economies that need to grow whether or not they make us thrive” to “economies that make us thrive whether or not they grow.”
Mumia Abu Jamal was stolen from the public and wrongfully incarcerated, depriving his family and friends of a member’s presence. This painting appears in the film Long Distance Revolutionary by Street Legal Cinema.
Around 2020 the mass of the Earth’s human made materials – including buildings, vehicles, infrastructure, appliances, and equipment – surpassed the mass of all living things in the natural world, including all marine life, soil microbes, plants, trees, birds, and insects. Synthesized materials will inevitabley break down and be replaced by nature, and by more life.
As sea levels began to rise, amphibians were among the first class of animals to broadly perish.
Visual creativity is thought, and sometimes felt or otherwise observed, to spawn from the brain’s right hemisphere, which controls the left side of the body. Artists and dreamers risk abandonment and marginalization in a left-brain-dominant, linear, tech culture.
