“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…
Tag: Lectures
He Feels Everything: On the Erotic Ecology of Andreas Weber
Here we bring the text of the lecture by Luďek ČERTÍK, which he delivered at the fifth seminar of the Traveling University of Nature "Everything around me lives, feels, as I do - paths to a regenerative culture" at the Rychleby Ecocenter on August 12, 2020. In it, he presents the ideas of the leading contemporary German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber, his concept of revival, or rather erotic ecology, which he places in the broader context of the development of biological thinking and...
Jiří Zemánek: We need a real "rebellion for life"
Speech at the Extinction Rebellion event in Prague on October 12: “We are not here to run the world, we are here to become an integral part of the greater earthly community.” Thomas Berry I join the pro-life rebellion. The American philosopher Christopher Bache characterized our current situation in the following words: “There seems to be a certain maturation taking place today; a kind of massive subterranean awakening. … It’s getting hot,…