Message From Our Future: The Years of Repair

We're viscerally learning lessons about how damage done to the natural world will invariably blow back on us, whether in the form of disease or climate disruption or both.

Author:

Duane Townsend

Publish date:

Oct 2, 2020

We're viscerally learning lessons about how damage done to the natural world will invariably blow back on us, whether in the form of disease or climate disruption or both.

The Intercept - October 1, 2020

"Consciousness of our own vulnerability, as Glaude says, can sow solidarity. Especially when that consciousness is combined with more time. Because when we are moving at the velocity of pre-pandemic life, endlessly striving and climbing, frantically making sure that we do not fall behind, busyness can act as a deadening agent. There is no time to think about who makes our stuff or where our trash goes or what wars — domestic and international — are waged in our name. And certainly, there is no time, or so we have so often been told, to look back at the past and present terror committed against Black and Indigenous peoples — crimes so profitable that they produced the vast wealth on which contemporary capitalism rests. A system that must always move faster, and grow bigger, or else face collapse."