"Humans cannot persist without a healthy ecological foundation. Even if our brains are not up to the task of appreciating all the connections that relate to quality of air, water, nutrients, soils, etc., these things are still vitally important. We would be tragically foolish to imagine living without insects, plankton, microbes, fish, birds, etc."
"Therefore, modernity cannot persist without ecological health."
Tom Murphy
"Modernity is completely reliant on ecologically erosive practices and on non-renewable materials whose extraction is not only in limited supply but damaging to the very ecological health it ultimately relies upon for its existence. The community of life cannot help to recycle modernity’s weird materials. Modernity actively and necessarily undermines its own essential foundation, setting up its own failure."
Tom Murphy
I like how he labels our predicament "modernity" instead of "capitalism" or "consumerism", sidestepping any possibility of imagined political "fixes".
@jackofalltrades
I'd say modernity is more than a label, it is a proper diagnosis actually.
@gerrymcgovern
