Theodore Roszak - Where the Wasteland Ends : Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society.

Ecology has been called the subversive science – and with good reason. Its sensibility – holistic, receptive, trustful, largely non-tampering, deeply grounded in aesthetic intuition – is a radical deviation from traditional science. Ecology does not systemise by mathematical generalisation or materialist reductionism, but by the almost sensuous intuiting of natural harmonies on the largest scale.

Today’s Green Thought comes from the late Theodore Roszak’s seminal 1972 book Where the Wasteland Ends : Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roszak_'scholar'

Garret Hardin - Living within Limits

The essential life of an educated urban dweller, from birth to death, is lived out on ghost acreage*. Urbanites, lamentably unconscious of this support base most of the time, live a life of illusion. This does not make for ecologically realistic thinking; illiterate farmers of the poorest countries are often closer to political realities than are the most sophisticated city dwellers. Unfortunately urbanites, in most countries and in most times, control both the media and the political system.

 

Taken from the late American ecologist (1915 – 2003) Garret Hardins’ 1993 book Living within Limits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Hardin

 

 

*’Ghost Acreage’ is a term coined by the agricultural geographer Georg Borgstrom in 1965 for the area of land required to provide sufficient resources for a person to survive in their present way of life. http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/2009/05/ghost-acres.html

Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

Efficiency and risk reduction in the service of humanity, the inner motivations of technological change, must be rethought from an ecosystem perspective…….

Technology seems to have taken on a life of its own, forcing its mechanical organic efficiencies on the landscape, destroying in the process the world’s priceless variety and wildness.

……….Urbanisation may, in the end, prove to be a fatal disease.

Today’s Green Thought comes from the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ by Stan Rowe.

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http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/EarthManifesto.html

Richard Adrian Reese - What is Sustainable

An essential part of our healing process is unlearning the dysfunctional beliefs and values of an insane culture that is ravaging the planet.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from last weeks blog ‘What is Sustainable’ 2/01/2013 by Richard Adrian Reese http://www.wildancestors.blogspot.co.uk/