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The [Real]: on Rothko, music, & the Global Trends 2040 report

Posted in AnthropoScene, SoundScape, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Fans of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings frequently comment on the spaciousness, immersiveness, and liminality of those works: the way you can stand in front of them and feel as if you are being bathed in some transcendent force that is irreducible to anything else. Great art is (supposed to be) like that: it simply […]

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Letter to a vaccine skeptic

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 12, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

The following distills the essence of my responses to questions from a vaccine (and Covid) skeptical friend. I share it in case it’s useful for others (and because it updates a few things I’ve written before on the topic). I’m not an epidemiologist and the comments on the science of the pandemic are those of […]

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Equinoxx

Posted in EcoCulture, tagged , , , , , , on March 24, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Equinoxes and solstices are geometrical phenomena. They mark the passage of time in ways that are easy to understand and more or less universal. I understand people’s desire to watch for them, to mark them out, and to even reclaim them as somehow more primordial than other kinds of temporal passage points. But changing seasons […]

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Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2020 | 6 Comments »

How best to characterize the past decade in books? This list focuses on three themes: attempts to grapple with the nature of the climate and extinction crises, the “ontological” and “decolonial” “turns” in cultural and environmental theory, and efforts to map out the “multispecies entanglements” that characterize our world and the acute challenges we face.

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Thought exercise (democracy & reality)

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on September 11, 2020 | 1 Comment »

See how far you follow my line of thinking here: (1) Democracy (institutional and not just majoritarian/representational) is better than the alternatives. Let’s live with it (and defend it). (2) Democracy as practiced in the U.S. today is partial, compromised, and somewhat muzzled, but still better than the alternatives. Let’s fix it up. (3) Democracy, […]

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Diagnosing Trump-like derangement syndrome

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

The Covid-19 situation in the United States, which has become the epicenter of new infections because of its flawed and chaotic response to the pandemic, is seen by some around the world as an emergency case of its own, requiring some sort of defensive response by countries that could become similarly infected. The Week‘s Ryan […]

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The state of things

Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

I have many friends who are despairing that, with Bernie Sanders’s exit from the presidential race, the United States has lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to elect a leader who is honest, reliable, and completely untethered to the vested interests that keep our whole system careening towards catastrophe (climate change, ecological collapse, mass extinction, out-of-control AI, […]

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CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”

Posted in Academe, MediaSpace, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »

Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).

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Long-term civilizational prognosis: a hypothesis

Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2019 | 3 Comments »

Here’s a hypothesis: If the human community exists in some more or less unified form in 880 years (in the year 3000 by our calendar), that feat will have been accomplished, at least in part, in and through the emergence of an ecological religion. What does this mean, and how could we test it? Religion, […]

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Climate Action Week: What to watch for

Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 16, 2019 | 3 Comments »

As people around the world prepare for Global Climate Strike Week (Sept. 20-27) and for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City on Sept. 23, here are some thoughts and sources to help us think about what’s at stake, what’s possible, and what we can do. This blog may be updated as needed, […]

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So, here we are…

Posted in AnthropoScene, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , , on September 8, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, what a reaction the article described here has gotten… This version includes a follow-up comment below. Jonathan Franzen’s “What If We Stopped Pretending?” articulates an important point about hope and hopelessness in the face of climate change. Franzen suggests that an “all-out war on climate change” no longer makes sense because the scenario for […]

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Vermonters & climate change

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2018 | 3 Comments »

I was interviewed yesterday by the local CBS-affiliated WCAX news show on the topic of how to motivate Vermonters to take action on climate change (while Bernie Sanders and Cornel West were speaking just up the road). What was used of our interview was fairly minimal, so I thought I would share the notes I […]

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