Anyone
who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a
madman or an economist.
Today’s Green
Thought comes from the English economist, peace activist Quaker and
philosopher Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993).
Monday 25 June 2012
Monday 18 June 2012
Alice Walker
Some of
us have become used to thinking that woman is the nigger of the world, that a
person of colour is the nigger of the world, that a poor person is the nigger
of the world………But, in truth, Earth itself has become the
nigger of the world.
Today’s Green Thought comes from Alice Walker, an
African American author, poet, and activist.
Monday 11 June 2012
John Muir
Brought
into right relationships with the wilderness, man would see that his
appropriation of Earth's resources beyond his personal needs would only bring
imbalance and begat ultimate loss and poverty by all.
This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from the writings of John
Muir (1838 – 1914) a Scottish-born American naturalist,
author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness
in the United States.
Monday 4 June 2012
Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay - ‘What we leave behind’
Industrial
civilisation is incompatible with life. It is systematically destroying life on
this planet, undercutting it’s very basis. This culture is, to put it
bluntly, murdering the earth. Unless it’s stopped – whether we
intentionally stop it or the natural world does, through ecological collapse or
other means – it will kill every living being.
We
need to stop it.
Today’s Green Thought are the opening lines of the
preface of ‘What we leave
behind’ by Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay (2009).
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