I’m delighted to know Derrick Jensen and his work. I encourage my readers to read more of it. He asks crucial questions that everyone should ask if we want to survive as a species. Another question is do we really care to survive? Too few people are doubting the dominant culture and too many are taking it for granted without any actions against it. As Stan Rushworth noted: “It’s not human beings that have made things colossally dire; it’s a particular type of thinking, it’s a predatory type of thinking. Jack Forbes calls it ‘the wetiko’ which means ‘cannibal’. This predatory psychology is completely justified as the natural state of man. And that’s where the guilt comes from because it’s not true and everybody knows in the deepest part of their heart that we’re way better than that.”
Throughout the history of humankind, resources have been concentrated in the hands of few. When resources got depleted, civilizations collapsed. Well, it wasn’t that bad because they were local. Now, technology allowed for globalization and thus much faster depletion of the planetary resources. The principle of the system hasn’t changed except for the scale; it’s global now. We live in the times of witnessing a global civilization collapse; it’s starting to crack down.
Created and written by Irina Le
References:
- WWF Living planet report 2020;
- https://phys.org/news/2020-09-world-wildlife-plummets-two-thirds-years.html;
- https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-10-11/we-need-an-ecological-civilization-before-its-too-late/;
- Documentary “Planet of the humans”.
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