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“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” - Aldo Leopold.
Microsoft be damned! The real thing is so much better than a screensaver, especially when you can look across a familiar landscape in which you know many of the nooks and crannies and residents. I’ve been reminded recently that the true enemy of those nooks and crannies and residents is the global machine of capitalism. I’ve also been reminded that until that machine is stopped and replaced (my preferred replacement is distributism), every nook, cranny and resident on the planet is vulnerable not just to poverty, or hardship or dislocation, but extinction. So, how to rapidly stop the machine? How, as Thoreau put it, can you “let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine”? Is it even possible to stop it? Will it consume itself? Do we just start replacing the machine with an alternative/s? How do the alternatives go “mainstream”? Big questions!
I like the way English writer Paul Kingsnorth approaches climate change. He says that we tend to externalise it as a problem to be solved, when in fact, we are climate change and our consumptive lifestyles are the problem. The earth, he says, will go on. Humanity will go on. What can’t continue is a civilisation based on economic growth. I wonder whether this, the notion that our civilisation is coming to an end, is the actual source of climate change denial. Instead of trying to solve climate change as a problem, we should apply our minds and hands to the task of figuring out what comes after consumer capitalism. #degrowth #doughnuteconomics #uncivilisation #climatechangedenial #latestagecapitalism #paulkingsnorth
Every day I walk under this big old beauty and every day it’s a privilege. #sydneybluegum #eucalyptussaligna #hamptonqld #dailyconstitutional
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” - Wendell Berry