“I don’t trust that there is some unilateral, final way to plant our feet in the earth without displacing something. It means that we should be humble.” —poet and clinical psychologist Dr. Bayo Akomolafe Commodity and consumption. Use. Life. Death. Exploitation. There is nothing about being alive either now or in our collective hunter-gatherer past that can save us from causing damage or death simply by existing. This does not absolve us from our responsibility to the world that gives us life. Any action attempting sustainability has to begin with caring for the ecosystems that sustain us; but we will, somehow, still cause damage.
Consumption without exploitation
Consumption without exploitation
Consumption without exploitation
“I don’t trust that there is some unilateral, final way to plant our feet in the earth without displacing something. It means that we should be humble.” —poet and clinical psychologist Dr. Bayo Akomolafe Commodity and consumption. Use. Life. Death. Exploitation. There is nothing about being alive either now or in our collective hunter-gatherer past that can save us from causing damage or death simply by existing. This does not absolve us from our responsibility to the world that gives us life. Any action attempting sustainability has to begin with caring for the ecosystems that sustain us; but we will, somehow, still cause damage.