Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire

Revealing my deepest thoughts to a visitor one evening, I was accused of being against civilization, against science, against humanity. Naturally I was flattered.... With his help I discovered that I was not opposed to mankind but only to mancenteredness, anthropocentricity, the opinion that the world exists solely for the sake of man.

 Taken from Desert Solitaire, the 1968 book by the late American author Edward Abbey, (1927 –1989).

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

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

 

Pentti Linkola - Can Life Prevail? : A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis

"By decimating its woodlands, Finland has created the grounds for prosperity. We can now thank prosperity for bringing us – among other things – two million cars, millions of glaring, grey-black electronic entertainment boxes, and many unnecessary buildings to cover the green earth. Wealth and surplus money have led to financial gambling and rampant social injustice, whereby ‘the common people’ end up contributing to the construction of golf courses, classy hotels, and holiday resorts, while fattening Swiss bank accounts. Besides, the people of wealthy countries are the most frustrated, unemployed, unhappy, suicidal, sedentary, worthless and aimless people in history. What a miserable exchange."

 

Todays is taken from Can Life Prevail? : A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis. The 2009 book of Pentti Linkola, a radical Finnish deep ecologist, polemicist, and fisherman.

 

 

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

 

http://www.amerika.org/books/can-life-prevail-by-pentti-linkola/

 

Holmes Rolston III - Challenges in Environmental Ethics

There is something Newtonian, not yet Einsteinian, besides something morally naïve, about living in a reference frame where one species takes itself as absolute and values everything else relative to its utility. If true to their specific epithet, ought not Homo sapiens value this host of life with something of a claim to care in its own right? Man may be the only measurer of things, but is man the only measure of things?

 

Taken from the 1990 essay ‘Challenges in Environmental Ethics’ by the american philosopher Holmes Rolston III. 

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

Richard Reese

“We’re a mining society. We mine the soils, the groundwater, the forest, the minerals, the fish… We’re destroying non-renewable resources. There’s no future in it.”

 

Richard Reese, author of What is Sustainable? Remembering Our Way Home and Sustainable or Bust,

 

See 27 minute video at: http://peakmoment.tv/videos/what-is-sustainable-271/#sthash.mghZXNWG.dpuf