Part 3 of The Descent and Ascent of Humanity — Evolution and Collapse: What Really Are We? The Story of the Fast-Opportunist and Slow-Strategist
Who are we? — Understanding ourselves in ecological terms and what it means to our fate.
Who are we? — Understanding ourselves in ecological terms and what it means to our fate.
Speed underpins every phenomenon of our Universe, and our problems too.
The notion that we ought to aim for a good relationship and maintain a good state of Mother Nature might of course trigger unease in some. The point is not to propose we need to give up everything for a better Mother Nature (as with the logic in hardcore consequentialism, as well as the “us vs. them” paradigm)…
The view that “bad” culture/beliefs underlie environmental problems is not new in environmental stuides. But how exactly is it effected? What is our Achilles’ heel that is holding us back? Anthropocentric morality may be so.