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To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green’ capitalism, to make it 'ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

Murray Bookchin, Remaking Society (1990)

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Torment

I’ve counted painful seconds,

Where caverns of thought become a theme park for demons,

Weeping rivers of black soot,

Forests of gallows,

Shame is a flaking carapace, whose peeling skin sticks everywhere

To every memory as a film,

And outside that broken place,

The world is quiet and waiting to be found.

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Prepare

I’ve inhaled the tears

When you burn this

I’ll picture the smooth aqua water

My feet swaying ten feet above the sand

And crane my neck up to a blue sky

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Blight

The paint is peeling,

Curled over itself like a withered petal,

Shivering in the wind

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wildfairy

You talk about light like it’s running through our veins.

Anika Prakash, The Way the Light Reflects, published in Vagabond City (via weltenwellen)

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Just In

who taught us to look so far ahead we no longer stumble over the dead? when did we learn to calculate a loss as if humans are expired goods that can simply be written off?

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