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The 5 D’s

Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 11, 2018 | 3 Comments »

… that might get humans to pull through the next few centuries relatively intact as a species (if not undiminished or unscathed): Decarbonization, Deplasticization, Demilitarization, Decolonization, and Demographic Transition. The first, Decarbonization, entails a dramatic reduction in industrial production of atmospheric carbon (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. It will keep conditions for the flourishing of […]

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Ontology, decoloniality, and the people-land nexus

Posted in EcoCulture, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 5, 2017 | 6 Comments »

Here’s something I’ve written to accompany a reading and discussion of Arturo Escobar’s piece “Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimensions of the Epistemologies of the South,” which I proposed as my suggested reading contribution for an intro graduate class in Environment and Society. I’m sharing it here as a brief think-piece.  […]

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A metaphysics they can’t match

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2017 | 2 Comments »

Opening the ISSRNC conference on Mountains and Sacred Landscapes with a set of images from anti-pipelines and indigenous solidarity events, Karenna Gore (daughter of Al and founding director of the Center for Earth Ethics) said something that struck me as an evocative distillation of what’s really at stake in the world. The Trump administration’s Inquisition-like demolition […]

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