Dismantle Civilisation

Here’s a great article by Chris Hedges that reflects much of what we think here, it’s well worth a read:
We stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments.

Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job [...] Read more »

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Here’s an interesting article, exploring the native american term ‘Sumac Kawsay’, or ‘Buen Vivir’:
(Portuguese to Spanish Translation by Blanca Diego.
Spanish to English Translation by Christopher Reid (Decolonial Translation Group)
NOTE: The original article “Sumac Kawsay” was published on the Web site of Foro Social Mundial on 6 February 2009. The Spanish translation by Blanca Diego, “Buen [...] Read more »

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If you’re in love with the world, fall in love with trying to save it
by Derrick Jensen, reprinted from Orion Magazine.
Years ago I was interviewed by a dogmatic pacifist (note to self: bad idea), who in his (grossly inaccurate) write-up said he thought I wanted all activists to think like assassins. That’s not true. What [...] Read more »

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Here’s an interesting article from Micah White of adbusters:

Experts agree that we are experiencing perilous climate change that calls the fate of our experiment in civilization into question. As severe weather strikes one continent and mysterious die-offs occur in another, the death rattle of the natural environment grows louder. “Where have all the fireflies gone?” [...] Read more »

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by Keith Farnish for Culture Change
How important do you think humans are?
For millennia we have been taught that human beings have a vital almost divine role in the Great Chain of Being, and to look around the cities where most of us now live you could indeed be forgiven for thinking that we [...] Read more »

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Reprinted from Nature Bats Last
By Guy R McPherson.
I’m driving from Tucson to the mud hut, taking a circuitous route that currently finds me staying in my wife’s childhood home in western Nebraska. Along with my spouse and dog, I’m covering 4,300 miles while crisscrossing 11 states and all 4 time zones in the continental [...] Read more »

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While an awful lot of people are talking about Adam Sacks’ admittedly brilliant and Grist-breaking article, called “The Fallacy of Climate Activism“, quietly and without fanfare Dave Pollard has been undergoing his own seismic shift. Dave runs the grandly titled blog “How to Save the World“, and up till recently he has used his expertise [...] Read more »

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Our obligation as activists, the first step, the essence, is to part the cultural veil at long last, and to tell the truth…… The root cause, the source of the symptoms, is 300 years of our relentlessly exploitative, extractive, and exponentially growing technoculture, against the background of ten millennia of hierarchical and colonial civilizations.
by [...] Read more »

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Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.

By Robert Jensen, AlterNet.
“The old future’s gone,” John Gorka sings. “We can’t get to there from here.”
That insight from Gorka, one of my favorite singer/songwriters chronicling the complexity of our [...] Read more »

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Here’s the first of a series of 3 articles at Survival Acres blog (which now seems to be closing for compelling reasons as shown in the most recent post) on how to practically resist the system we find ourselves in.
The majority of points raised and the suggestions are excellent, although the occasional focus on individualist-style [...] Read more »

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