"a system whose deepest logic is to convert the living world into fuel for its own endless expansion."

"It systematically selects for behaviors that reproduce itself and eliminates those that threaten it."

- Jeremy Lent 💬 / #JeremyLent

#civilisation #system #life #energy #systems #logic #growth #degrowth

https://jeremylent.substack.com/p/our-civilizations-disease-has-a-name

"It isn’t a conspiracy. It doesn’t require villains (though it produces them). It’s a self-reinforcing system that rewards extraction and punishes restraint, that transforms every living thing — forests, aquifers, human relationships, the Earth itself — into resources to be consumed in the pursuit of endless growth."

- Jeremy Lent 💬 / #JeremyLent

#civilisation #system #life #energy #systems #logic #growth #degrowth

https://jeremylent.substack.com/p/our-civilizations-disease-has-a-name

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/115525692449127859

Looking forward to listening in on #RogerHallam, #DanaFisher, #JeremyLent and #JamesDyke discuss collapse and dark optimism from 5:30pm, and then rounding off the festival with my workshop on how to live into it from 6:30pm today 🙂

#afineSunday

Brilliant discussion. The video is at the bottom of the page.

https://deeptransformation.network/posts/manifesting-together-the-dao-of-civilization

#jeremylent #deeptransformation #taoism #confucianism #neoconfucianism

Highly, highly, highly recommend this #book.

Just finished reading it. So much to process.

I feel tremendous gratitude to author #JeremyLent for weaving this “sacred and precious strand” into #TheWebofMeaning.

Have you read it?

"Perhaps we might begin to see humanity’s role, not to re-engineer a broken planet for further exploitation, but to attune with the rest of life’s abundance, and ensure that our own actions harmonise with the Earth’s ecological rhythms." #JeremyLent

Read: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-08-03/nature-is-not-a-machine-we-treat-it-so-at-our-peril/

#NatureConnection #NatureRecovery #Biodiversity #Biocentrism #Biophilia #Agroecology #Agroforestry #RegenerativeCulture #Degrowth #PostGrowth

https://www.lowimpact.org/western-mindset-source-problems

What are the fundamental #worldviews and #metaphors that have led mankind to inflict such acute destruction on the biosphere and on itself? And what new ways of thinking must we shift into, collectively, to avoid the worst?

A review of #JeremyLent's book, #ThePatterningInstinct

Join in the conversation!

#cognitivescience #history #LowImpact.org