Writings

The Anthropocene: 10 000 years of ecocide

the anthropocene: 10 000 years of ecocide The Great Acceleration in the Age of the Anthropocene; still from the video 'Welcome to the Anthropocene' (2012) 'Imagine how our discourse and actions would be different if people daily detailed for us the lives--- the individuality, the small and large joys and fears and sorrows--- of those…Read more The Anthropocene: 10 000 years of ecocide

Outlawing ecocide for global peace – why we must all stand with Polly Higgins, the ‘lawyer for the earth’

This post was also published on hercircleezine.com, a site for women's creative art and activism. It was a means to begin to look at the key term 'ecocide' in my phd work. Update: Mon 14 May 2012: YES!!! 'The Occupy Movement demands a law of Ecocide! "We demand the creation of international environmental standards, mandatory…Read more Outlawing ecocide for global peace – why we must all stand with Polly Higgins, the ‘lawyer for the earth’

Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests

‘I thought again of our fundamental inversion of all relatedness, of how we nearly always ask the wrong question—What can I get from this?—and so rarely the right one—What can I give back? Even when we try to learn from others, it is from the same spirit of acquisition: What can I learn from this…Read more Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests