How beautiful. I love how simply reading this--reminiscent of the best of Brain Pickings--gives me an embodied feeling of actively slowing down in response.
Inhofe Memorial attribution analysis is an excellent idea. Along that line, I've been thinking for a while about a permanent public hall-of-shame with the engraved names of key deniers/delayers (to prolong the saecula of their shame). Sort of a Vietnam Memorial but for the arms dealers and their government proxies. Location tbd, but for the moment I'm picturing the walls of a dimly-lit mineshaft heading down into the stifling darkness...
Snark aside, thank you so much for Conservation Works. I've just tuned in, and am really happy to see such great work putting conservation/biodiversity up on the same to-do list as climate. The gap between them in Anthropocene policy makes as much sense as the gap between medical and dental in health insurance.
And I love the idea of saecula "for repair as well as loss." We suffer so much ecological amnesia that it would be nice for the next generation to squint at pictures of gas stations or, as you say, the idea of clearcuts and coal plants.
Thank you Jason! Ha, yes, I hope future generations will remember our villains ... and consider burning coal as antisocial as smoking on airplanes. Looking forward to reading the Field Guide.
Your mention of saeculum reminds me of Gabriel García Márquez's concept, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, of the second death. The first death is the physical body. The second is when the last person who remembered us dies.
I love this! I had a beautiful conversation about chronos versus kairos this past week and appreciate this beautiful perspective.
I really like your notion of saecula for healing and repair .. a wonderful aspiration.
How beautiful. I love how simply reading this--reminiscent of the best of Brain Pickings--gives me an embodied feeling of actively slowing down in response.
Inhofe Memorial attribution analysis is an excellent idea. Along that line, I've been thinking for a while about a permanent public hall-of-shame with the engraved names of key deniers/delayers (to prolong the saecula of their shame). Sort of a Vietnam Memorial but for the arms dealers and their government proxies. Location tbd, but for the moment I'm picturing the walls of a dimly-lit mineshaft heading down into the stifling darkness...
Snark aside, thank you so much for Conservation Works. I've just tuned in, and am really happy to see such great work putting conservation/biodiversity up on the same to-do list as climate. The gap between them in Anthropocene policy makes as much sense as the gap between medical and dental in health insurance.
And I love the idea of saecula "for repair as well as loss." We suffer so much ecological amnesia that it would be nice for the next generation to squint at pictures of gas stations or, as you say, the idea of clearcuts and coal plants.
Thank you Jason! Ha, yes, I hope future generations will remember our villains ... and consider burning coal as antisocial as smoking on airplanes. Looking forward to reading the Field Guide.
And lo, a villain list appears: https://www.climatecriminals.org/2024-climate-criminals-profiles
Your mention of saeculum reminds me of Gabriel García Márquez's concept, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, of the second death. The first death is the physical body. The second is when the last person who remembered us dies.
Thank you!