Morgan FletcherThis has been shared and shared here, and now I'm sharing it. I'm going to buy her new #book from my local bookseller, then lend it out. Maybe I'll buy a few copies.
“Something big I propose in the book,” she says, “is that the whole idea of the ascent of man, his separation from nature, his inevitable progress towards the supremacy of industrialised capitalism, towards this supreme version of himself, is a weird detour from how most people, throughout most of time, have thought about nature and our place in it.” The mistakenness of that detour might show itself in environmental destruction, or it might show itself in an epidemic of loneliness, or in the scourge of corporate rapacity, but, once the imagination has woken up to it, says Solnit, “the change is deep and profound”
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights
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