“The great illusion of the industrial age is the idea that we can develop our human well-being by plundering the planet and destroying its geological and biological structure, including its functioning. From the idea that what is good for humans is also good for the Earth, we must come to the understanding that what is good for the complex community of life on Earth is good for…
Day: September 7, 2021
Paul Kingsnorth: The Road to Dark Mountain
“… the beauty of the universe, love it, not man apart from it, or you will share in the pitiful confusion of man, or you will drown in despair when man’s days grow dark.” — Robinson Jeffers (The Solution, translated by Kamil Bednář) Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer, poet, and thinker. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and co-founder of the Dark Mountains Project. He lives in the west of Ireland.…