For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. — The Culture of Make Believe, Derrick Jensen Part One — I am scrambling to get this first part of the Earth Day two-part article …
are we fighting against the plastic that ends up in landfills and in oceans, or the total energy used (global warming gasses expelled) to create the mult-iuse bags? We’re probably not the first time there’s been a civilization in the universe,” states Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and the …
It follows that the institution of a leisure class acts to make the lower classes conservative by withdrawing from them as much as it may of the means of sustenance and so reducing their consumption, and consequently their available energy, to such a point as to make them incapable of the effort required for the …
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free._ Eugene V. Debs I had a short confab yesterday with four elementary teachers after doing my substituting for a 6th grade class whose …
how can poets fly outside the frame that holds humanity in the ecological balance of Taker Society** I think poetry, if it’s going to be really engaging and engaged, has to be able to come at the issues of our lives from all kinds of angles and all kinds of ways: loudly and quietly, angrily …
Climate change’s ‘evil twin’ Ocean Acidification (and problem stepchild, Ocean Hypoxia) People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth’s life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. Ninety-seven percent earth’s water is there. It’s the blue heart of the …
A World is Right When We Learn to Preserve and Embrace the Word Like a Poet Riffing off of Aldo Leopold’s: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” by Paul Haeder / April 1st, 2019 Special for Dissident …
