For the most social of creatures, the mammalian bee, there’s no such thing now as society. This will be our downfall. George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday 14 October 2014 19.49 BST ‘Social isolation is as potent a cause of early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness is twice as deadly as obesity.’ Photograph: Feri… Read More Monbiot: The age of loneliness is killing us
Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so dont get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the rivers, because that means youre too attached. I think one of the problems with Westernized Buddhists is premature equanimity. When the Buddha said dont be… Read More Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something
Posted on Nov 9, 2014 By Chris Hedge Numbered footnotes, with hyperlinks, appear at the end of this article. My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate—“God grant me abstinence, but not yet.” But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction2, and with… Read More Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time
Over the past four years, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation have literally built a strategy to keep three proposed oil and gas pipelines from crossing their land. Concerned about the environmental damage a leak could cause on land they’ve never given up, they’ve constructed a protection camp to block pipeline companies. As opposition… Read More How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline: The Unist’ot’en Camp Resistance
The fossil fuel industry knows full well that their product is causing the sickness and death of people everywhere that oil, gas and coal are being mined, shipped and burned. They also know full well that their industry is the leading cause of global environmental destruction and climate change. They know full well that the… Read More Call the Fossil Fuel Industry what it is: Global Genocide
on her baby’s future impacted by climate change.
