Derrick Jensen - ‘A Language older than Words’

In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must, in a broad sense, tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truths must at all costs be avoided.

Todays Green Thought comes from the American author and environmental activist Derrick Jensens 2000 book ‘A Language older than Words’.

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Rachel Carson - Silent Spring

The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man”.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the 1962 book that alerted the industrialised world to the dangers of unregulated pesticide use -  Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

C.A.Bowers - Educating for Eco-Justice and Community

It is possible that educational theorists continue to frame the issue of social justice in ways that continue to exclude environmental issues because they write from a largely urban perspective.  ……

 

The source of water, the condition of the soil that yields the fruits and vegetables, the ecosystems and human communities displaced or degraded by the technologies that provide the city’s energy are out of sight, and thus largely out of mind. …..

 

Without an everyday awareness of the complex relationships between ecosystems and the political economy of transforming Nature into goods and services, the average urban dweller’s perception of reality depends largely on images designed to promote consumerism.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the introduction of the 2001 book ‘Educating for Eco-Justice and Community’ by the american education-theorist C.A.Bowers.

Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

Biology by itself is incomplete. Organisms do not stand on their own; they evolve and exist in the context of unified ecological systems that confer those properties called life. Life is not a property of protein molecules nor of protoplasm; it is a property of the ecosystems that the planetary Ecosphere comprises

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Stan Rowe writing about the science of ecology in the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ .

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