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Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. ”
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. ”
Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. ”
When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. ”
Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. ”
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament. ”
The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity. ”
Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain. ”
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ”
I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too. ”