We're Looking At Things Upside Down

August 6, 2021

“Imagine that you are trying to stop a strip mine by citing the fuel use of the equipment and the lost carbon sink of the forest that needs to be cleared, and the mining company says, "OK, we're going to do this in the most green way possible; we are going to fuel our bulldozers with biofuels, run our computers on solar power, and plant two trees for every tree we chop down." You get into a tangle of arithmetic, none of which touches the real reason you want to stop the mine -- because you love that mountaintop, that forest, those waters that would be poisoned.” — An excerpt from What We Do to Nature, We Do to Ourselves, by Charles Eisenstein

There are so many people out there who just talk talk talk about the climate crisis, but never really reach the root of the issue. Charles is actually addressing the fundamentals, and not getting lost in the ‘green products as our savior’ way of thinking. I’d highly recommend reading his work.

-Chris