Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The end of the infinite, or the end of the capitalist myth of the infinite — infinitely expanding economies, infinitely expanding wealth generation, infinitely expanding consumption of goods, infinitely expanding production of those goods… Oops. We just crashed into the wall. Never mind. The thing about circles and [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This is my last post until after Christmas.] I find it odd how we have divided into good and bad this notion of ‘light in the darkness.’ It is a strange western construct. Since without darkness there is no light, darkness must not be a bad thing, but [...]
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