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).
Monday, 28 May 2012
David Bohm’s - ‘Wholeness and the Implicate Order’ .
"The
essential new quality implied by the quantum theory is... that a system cannot
be analyzed into parts. This leads to the radically new notion of unbroken
wholeness of the entire universe. You cannot take it apart. For if you do, what
you end up with is not contained within the original whole. It is created by
the act of analysis."
Today’s Green Thought comes from the British
quantum physicist
David Bohm’s 1980 book ‘Wholeness
and the Implicate Order’ .
Monday, 21 May 2012
Chris Hedges - 'The World As It Is’
“There is no way to vote against
the interests of Goldman Sachs.”
Today’s Green Thought comes from the 2011 book 'The
World As It Is’ by Chris Hedges. (The Goldman Sachs Group,
Inc. is an American multinational investment banking and
securities firm).
Monday, 14 May 2012
Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’
A
radical critique that questions society’s belief system and also wishes
to gain assent from members of that society must confront the fact that any
appeal to ‘common sense’ or intuitions will not go deeply enough
because our ‘common sense’ is
part of the problem.
Today’s Green Thought comes
from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.
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