Paul Kingsnorth has an excellent, and thought proking essay on virtually all the issues we have discussed — and will discuss — in this space. Here’s an except:

The environment is the victim of this empire. But the “environment”—that distancing word, that empty concept—does not exist. It is the air, the waters, the creatures we make homeless or lifeless in flocks and legions, and it is us too. We are it; we are in it and of it, we make it and live it, we are fruit and soil and tree, and the things done to the roots and the leaves come back to us. We make ourselves slaves to make ourselves free, and when the shackles start to rub we confidently predict the emergence of new, more comfortable designs.

Set aside a half hour. Seriously. And read the full piece here.

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