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Introduction: Dean Walker’s New Book (Fall 2018)
NEW BOOK: INTRODUCTION Dean Spillane-Walker July 2018 My frustration with these greedy, lying bastards is personal. Human-caused climate disruption is not a belief – it is one of the best-studied phenomena on Earth. Even a half-wit can understand this. As any father would, anyone threatening my family will by on the receiving end of…
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Confounded On The Bridge Between Worlds, By Carolyn Baker
Like so many individuals, I was compelled last week to bear witness to the contrived crisis created by the Trump Administration at the southern US border. The images, the sounds, the stories continue to swirl in my head even as this week brings a host of new, vivid, and shocking reports. I lived on the…
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The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse and Mysticism
A powerful dialogue addressing the core issues of our times. Original post in Kosmos Journal. Read the full conversation, here.
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Medusa’s Curse: The Necessity Of Art In The Climate Struggle, By Kathleen Dean Moore
Reposted from Resilience.Org Because I am a literary writer, writing about climate justice, people often ask me, What is the importance of the arts in the climate struggle? I turn to Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth century German philosopher. “We have art in order not to die of the truth,” he wrote. So then. What are…
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Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study
The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds. Read full article here.
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Joe Brewer – Collapse and Rebirth
Joe Brewer is a complexity researcher and evangelist for the field of culture design. The spoken audio is from a Kosmos Live podcast, “on cultural design and midwifing a new era”.
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Uninhabitable Earth – Annotated. David Wallace Wells
In 2017 David Wallace Wells posted what would become New York Magazine’s most read article ever. This is a fully annotated version of the same article. The notes are well worth making time for. This article will surely be seen as a massive turning point for our collective attention. Enough to move us into substantial…
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Chaco Canyon, Chaco Earth, By Chris Hedges
Reposted from Truthdig CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, N.M.—A bitter wind whipped down the 10-mile-long Chaco Canyon, kicking up swirls of dust among the thorny greasewood and sagebrush bushes. I ducked behind one of the towering sandstone walls in the three-acre ruin, or Great House, known as Pueblo Bonito, to escape the gusts. I was…
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Trauma In The Body: An Interview With Bessel van der Kolk
Reposted from Daily Good Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. is the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, a professor in the department of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and the director of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, which Congress established to raise the standard of care and improve access…
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