#overshoot

[sataniccapitalist]

The US military is 'Earth's greatest enemy': Abby Martin

“Earth's Greatest Enemy,” the new blockbuster documentary by independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin, is an expansive and terrifying investigation into the existential threat that US empire in general—and the US military specifically—poses to humanity and to our planet. In this panel discussion, recorded after a live screening of “Earth's Greatest Enemy” on Jan. 29 at the TRNN studio in Baltimore, Maryland, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter for The Guardian, speak with Abby Martin about how US militarism and imperialism are destroying the planet—and what can be done to stop them.

[protoslacker]

To create a truly sustainable society, both ecologically and economically, we need a world where billionaires can no longer exist. The problem with capitalism is that the wealth of billionaires makes them enormously powerful. It’s hard to imagine they’ll give up their wealth voluntarily. And the brilliant irony is that capitalism needs billionaires as much as billionaires need capitalism.  We are in a trap of our own making. 

Paul Abela in transformatise. Are Billionaires Sustainable

[ponku-po]

Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse by Sam Hall

[stormbearworld]

One day soon when industrial civilisation has collapsed, human survivors will look back at this and think “why didn’t we listen to the people we were calling eco fascists”

[climbhighsleeplow]

Modern capitalism ignores this truth as it operates under the illusion that earth has inexhaustible resources and an unlimited capacity to absorb waste.

[faithfromanewperspective]

i'm obsessed with the idea that sustainability is nurturing. i'm obsessed with healing being healing for all of us. i'm obsessed with the way that looking after our environment so mirrors looking after our bodies and our minds. i'm obsessed with integrating this.

when i was in my late teens going through burnout and starting my enviro sci degree I remember comparing what was going on in my head with planetary overshoot. as in when we've gone through so much in one year that we've borrowed some from the future, more than used up the resources for that one year. I did that with my brain then, and I did it again now. I need to stop, I can't sustain this. we need to stop doing this to the planet, we can't sustain it.

but no one overworks themselves unless they think it's going to get them something. no one overworks themselves unless they're scared not to. unless that option might be somehow worse. i know it was for me. trying to get off the grind but when it was either that or feel nothing? I don't know what to choose. I needed to meet my needs elsewhere. same goes with the greedy exploiters of the planet, they need to be stopped, yes, but they're all chasing something. we all are. sustainability is simply meeting those needs in healthy ways.

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

15 Benefits of Collapse Acceptance

So much is there, waiting patiently, beyond awareness and grief...

[pratchettquotes]

Lord Vetinari paused. He found it difficult to talk to Frederick Colon. He dealt on a daily basis with people who treated conversation as a complex game, and with Colon he had to keep on adjusting his mind in case he overshot.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant