This weeks Green Thought is taken from Turtle Talk : voices for a sustainable future’ - a 1990 collection of interviews with ecological activists, organisers and visionaries. This piece is from ‘Deep Ecology Down Under’ an interview with the Australian environmental activist John Seed http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/johnseed.htm
‘….we can’t really afford five billion materialists : there just isn’t enough material to support them.’
This weeks Green Thought is taken from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac ( written in the 30’s and 40’s). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac
(from ‘Thinking like a mountain’ in ‘A Sand County Almanac’.)
‘We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realised then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and the mountain. I was young then and full of trigger-itch; I felt that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
This weeks Green Thought is taken from Turtle Talk : voices for a sustainable future’ - a 1990 collection of interviews with ecological activists, organisers and visionaries from North America. This piece is from ‘Becoming the Forest in defence of itself’ - an interview with Dave Foreman the US environmentalist and co-founder of the radical environmental movement Earth First!
‘…..we need people who, as a last resort, are willing to take things into their own hands and essential become the forest in defence of itself: to go out and help big yellow machines find their true Dharma nature by returning to the Earth.’
Todays Green Thought is taken from ‘The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky’ by Arundhati Roy (2003); the forward to the 2003 reprint of Noam Chomsky’s 1973 book For Reasons of State. Arundahti Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist and activist.
‘Neoliberal Capitalism isn’t just about the accumulation of power (for some). Its also about the accumulation of power (for some), the accumulation of freedom (for some). Conversely, for the rest or the world, the people who are excluded from neoliberalism’s ruling body, its about the erosion of capital, the erosion of power, the erosion of freedom.
