We all hold to faith or hope in things that are no longer working for us. We continue to believe in systems that are not just broken but irredeemable. And our belief in those system and our hope in those things keeps them alive and prolongs the harm they do.
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It’s Not Too Late to Love the World: In memoriam Michael Dowd
While a lot of people listening to Michael’s talks might get stuck on the part about how it’s too late to save the world, that part was really just the preface to his real message, which was that it’s not too late to love the world.
Michael Dowd on Death
Everything we value is possible only because of death. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high. Death is no less sacred than life.
“Preparing for the end of the world as we know it” by the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective
“If we do not learn the lessons of our current system, nor learn to face its death in a generative way, then we might refuse to let it go when its time comes, holding on to it at any cost and possibly leading to further violence. What’s more, we might continue to repeat the mistakes of this system in the context of whatever comes after it.”
“I Only Have One Prediction for You … We Are All Going to Die” by Dougald Hine
All enduring human cultures have been shaped by the need to be worthy of what we take. Either we make our lives a part of a cycle of gift, or we become an engine of depletion, bringing about a desolation from which we will not escape. The fossil economy breaks the possibility of such a cycle. How many million years of dying in the forests and seas of the ancient world goes into one generation of living the way we have been doing around here lately?
“A Guide to the End of Civilization (in 6 simple maxims)” by Christopher Stanley
1. Civilization is not the World.
2. Civilization is just a story.
3. Someday humans will die.
4. The World is more important than humans.
5. The problem is self-correcting.
6. We are returning to right relationship with the World.
Another End of the World is Possible 