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Of Course Post-Doom Has a Privilege Problem

I think the answer has to be that the Post-Doom community (such as it is) can’t be an end point. It has to be a waystation–a pausing point on the way to a discussion with a wider community which includes peoples who have already experienced apocalypses and people who have been experiencing collapse all their lives. Rather than being the answer, Post-Doom can only ever point the way to a more-inclusive conversation about the end of the world as we know it.

Do Trees Have Rights? Toward an Ecological Politics

“[I]t turns out that extending rights to other-than-human beings is much harder for most people to imagine than giving rights to a corporation. The reason is that we’ve all been indoctrinated in a particular theory of rights: classical liberalism.”

The Avengers Won the War, But Lost the Argument: How Our Heroes Doom Our Future

Thanos saw a universe populated by beings who had exceed the limits of the nature. As he saw it, there were only two possibilities, either voluntarily check the growth of life or let nature do it for us. Thanos chose the former path, because the latter would involve incalculably more suffering. The Avengers movies are fiction, but the dilemma posed by Thanos is a real one.

The Wizard & the Prophet … and the Microbiologist?: 3 Visions of Our Future

Two different visions of humankind’s relationship with the natural world: the one viewing nature as a something to be bent to the will of humankind, the other viewing nature as something to which humankind must bend.