We do not need small tweaks in the right direction we need the foundation underneath it to crumble we need to dismantle the gaze we have and the mindsets we hold with us because this is where it all starts and we can use all the ecological materials we want but nothing will change, deeply change, until we learn to consume less instead of consume differently - and nothing, nothing!, will change if we do not learn to first see the world with other lenses than extractive ones because there will always be cleaner and greener ways to extract but the longer we place ourselves above, instead of beside, the earth the less there will be left to extract from and when I was little it was called sustainability and now I think they're calling it regenerative practices because even in a decade since I first heard the word carbon foot print there is already much less to sustain it's all about regenerating because we have killed it and we keep killing it and I don't know why I'm writing when these words will be at the bottom of the rising sea levels and maybe we are too late to halt it so all I have is sorrow - walking up a street all others are running down, all I have is sorrow
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We Are Drowning, How Should We Kill Our Time?
PoetryThis collection of stream of consciousness prose was written during a very special time in my life. I left the city following a massive burnout, and lived in the country for months. I began a garden, cut most of my ties to the outside world, and wro...
