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The Copenhagen Climate Talks – the 15 th conference of all the parties of the UNFCC – have now come to a close.
The hope was that the gathered world leaders and politicians would have created a legally binding deal that would see global emissions of greenhouse gas fall drastically as the science demanded, limiting the extent of climate change already upon us.
But that’s what it was – a hope. The Copenhagen Accord merely expresses Read the rest of this entry »
Everything on this earth is inherently wild – if it lives and dies, it is part of the wildness that is life. Our word ‘will’ is rooted in the word wild; the will of a creature – the will of the land, is it’s wildness. In a culture dedicated to denying this truth, we tend to think of wildness as an exception – as something that exists in isolated pockets of wilderness here and there.
Wildness is the rule, not the exception.
How does a population turn into a community?
How does a community turn into a government?
How does a government turn into an oppressive state?
How does culture develop to control? Read the rest of this entry »