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Miss Gayle

"All societies face multiple cascading ecological crises—emphasis on the plural. There are many crises, not just climate change, and no matter what a particular society’s contribution to the crises there is nowhere to hide. The cascading changes will come in ways we can prepare for but can’t predict, and it’s likely the consequences will be much more dire than we imagine.

If that seems depressing.. Keep reading anyway..."

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-03

A Different “Abundance Agenda”: Avoiding Delusions and Diversions Robert Jensen, originally published by Resilience.org March 27, 2025 Our choices are clear: We can drill more, which will simply get us to a cruel end game even sooner. We can pretend that technology will save us, which might delay that reckoning. If we can abandon the delusions and diversions, there’s no guarantee of a happy future. But there’s a chance of a future. Teaser sunset photo credit: Around Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Maddy Baker on Unsplash Why aren’t more people advocating limits? Because limits are hard. People...find it hard to resist what...I have called “the temptations of dense energy.” Yes, lots of uses of fossil fuels are wasteful, and modern marketing encourages that waste... That’s why the most sensible approach combines limits on our consumption of energy & rationing to ensure greater fairness, both of which have to be collectively imposed. That’s not a popular political position today, but if we are serious about slowing, and eventually stopping, the human destruction of the ecosphere, I see no other path forward. ...Those of us who endorse “fewer & less” will have to make choices between political...parties that are...either really hard-to-describe awful or merely bad...But whatever our immediate political choices, we should talk openly about ecological realities. That can start with imagining an “abundance agenda” quite different than what...conventional thinking, propose.
#Energy#DeGrowth#Sustainability
Mar 27, 2025, 07:36 PM·Public
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