Duality and Reality
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Real, unreal. This is the the ultimate isolating duality that we have created for our minds, the ultimate isolating brokenness in our language and our culture.
Tag: science
Cosmos as Home: Evolution as Context
By Mary Evelyn Tucker, Center for Humans and Nature
With such an understanding of the continuity of all life we can develop a more robust cosmological ethics highlighting responsibility and reciprocity for our magnificent Earth community.
Introduction to The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings.
How an Indigenous Scientist Studies Global Change
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
Dr. Danielle Ignace has found a way to unify her Native American and Western science identities to better understand big ecosystem changes.
America’s Conflicted Landscapes
By David E. Nye, MIT Press Reader
Does nature represent eternity, ancestors, science, the present, the future, or a young earth? Is it to be revered, conserved, exploited, or sacrificed? A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.
Paul Feyeraband and the fight over ‘truth’
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We are having worldwide fight not over our view of "the facts", but over what constitutes "the facts." It has ever been thus, philosopher Paul Feyeraband tells us. It's just that now that fight is breaking out into the open and disrupting our lives and our institutions without a clear way to resolve it.
Science, Belief, and Democracy
By Robert Costanza, Solutions
The United States was founded on ideas that reflected Enlightenment thinking, including the importance of science and the separation of church and state.
Podcast from the Prairie: Mad About Science
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Podcast from the Prairie
In Episode 3, titled “Mad about Science,” host Robert Jensen asks Wes how formal science differs from, and is similar to, the folk science he learned on the farm growing up.
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
SCIENCE is a political claim that the human world should be organized in a particular way on the basis of ‘scientific principles’ or what ‘the science’ tells us to do, or other formulations of that sort (some people call this scientism).
Seeing White: Skulls and Skin
By John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Scene on Radio
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
The New Green Revolution, a.k.a. The Grand Transition to… ?? – Part I
By Tad Patzek, Life Itself
How naive it is to think than the "New Green Deal" will allow us to continue our current lifestyles, just by other greener means. This, my friends in the developed, power and resource hogging countries is impossible.
Revealed: How the Tobacco and Fossil Fuel Industries Fund Disinformation Campaigns Around the World
By Mat Hope, DeSmog Blog
The fossil fuel industry and the tobacco industry are funding disinformation campaigns so societies and countries can’t take action in ways that would generally benefit everyone except the fossil fuel and tobacco industries.