“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action, however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.” – Aldous Huxley
“SF is a sign for science fiction, speculative feminism, science fantasy, speculative fabulation, science fact, and also, string figures.” – Donna Haraway.
The topic of carbon credits is very challenging for me. I sometimes see it as purchasing the rights to keep being shitty human beings. I’m clearly not in a right place to do proper curation of these projects Is there somebody else interested in this topic?
With them I research about passive and active regeneration, human intervention or human banishment.
tldr; I think we are a mess with no solution. We should leave most of the earth alone so it can regenerate itself, while we inhabit small areas experimenting on solar punk interspecies relations.
The approaches that quantify human impact on nature, conservation and restoration, like carbon credits, can disconnect humans from their position and role in the universe. I think what is needed is to strengthen our connection with everything more-than-human. With awe, joy, and gratitude towards nature and the universe, taking responsibility for our actions should be direct and obvious, a priority and not an afterthought.
I’m looking at religion, myth, and ritual to recover that connection. This book has been very useful for me:
«Religious ecologies are ways of orienting and grounding whereby humans […] undertake specific practices of nurturing and transforming self and community in a particular cosmological context that regards nature as inherently valuable.»
Orienting through stories and practices, symbols and rituals, meditation and prayer.
Grounding to negotiate tragedy and loss, contingency and finitude.
Nurture individuals and communities to live amid uncertainty and pain with joy, hope, and even laughter.
Transform the human to activate healing and reconciliation so that comprehensive compassion may flow into the world.
I’m now checking out their course:
This is very challenging. How do we add a spiritual dimension to the blockchain? How do we add these rituals for connection into our game theory models? These researchers talking about the transformational power of religion use three interpretative approaches on their investigation: retrieval, reevaluation, and reconstruction. I think part of that is rewriting old maladjusted practices and creating our new solar punk mythology based on what we have learned.
The Earth Charter is a document with sixteen principles, organized under four pillars, that seek to turn conscience into action.
It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a vision of hope and a call to action.
«The spirit of human solidarity and kinship with all life is strengthened when we live with reverence for the mystery of being, gratitude for the gift of life, and humility regarding the human place in nature.»
«Transform money from its current universalist commodity form, based in colonialism, to different ones based on autonomy, community, and care.»
«To counter both state and capital, the enactment of the three territories of defense [territory-body, territory-land, territory-money] would mean the creation of a democratic money commons, powered by people as an unconditional share, an income derived from the socially produced wealth in the planet, administered by communities locally, sharing their labor and their land.»
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
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The dream of redistributing the extracted value
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