Ours is a culture of mutilation

The tailpipes. The piercings and ratios. The boob jobs. The fracking and mining and oil spilled. The cancer and bullet holes. The squandered wildlife. The synthetic immortal chemistry. The worship of corruption and violence. The destruction of basic living senses...

Energy

Any system that rewards waste will fail. Our system wastes energy.

Celebrate Together

Because this is what we did with the things we had around us. This is what we did with ourselves.

DAY 32: This Is Why

DAY 32 Walk into my unit and one of my puppies, number 1619, has half a pint of congealed bloody faeces around his cage. The vet looks at him and says it is all right to continue with the daily doses. http://www.shac.net/HLS/exposed/zoe_broughton.html “Getting...

This Is The Evidence

This is why I disagree with Bill Gates about “the world is getting better”. The world’s oceans are faced with an unprecedented loss of species comparable to the great mass extinctions of prehistory, a major report suggests today. The seas are...

What Human Is

In the latest incident, Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies executive director Anna-Maria Arabia received an email saying she would be “strung up by the neck” and killed for her promotion of mainstream climate science....

Fuck the assumptions

Fuck the abuse. The human infrastructure is dying in place. A wasteland. Sweltering collapse.

The world is getting better?

“I am an impatient optimist. The world is getting better, but it’s not getting better fast enough, and it’s not getting better for everyone.” Wants companies to match profitmaking with doing good. Inflation-adjusted net worth would top $90...

Courage to just act differently

What we need then is the courage to say no to brutalizing relationships, the courage to stop going along with inherited violence. The power of conformity is awesome and conquers most, even in a “free” society like ours.

Les Animaux

From gods To global commodities. We lose the meaning Of animal, Of human. And are lost.

This is the way the world dies

Aussie croc meat bound for Chinese kitchens. Species will disappear into Asian gullets. They will be shit out into overloaded sewers in sweltering filthy human cities. That’s the way the world dies. One eager bite of flesh at a time.

Worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink

Last year, a record 30.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide poured into the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuel – a rise of 1.6Gt on 2009, according to estimates from the IEA regarded as the gold standard for emissions data. “I am very worried. This is the...

It’s All About Abuse

Critical Questions Pertaining to Abuse: Is abuse occurring? Do you notice the abuse? Do you pretend not to notice? Should you pretend not to notice? What are you losing? When do you stop going along with it?

Every Day We Fail

Every single day. Our infrastructure does exactly what it was minimally designed to do. It looks a certain way and wastes energy. It fails. It fails every day, all day until it falls down or is taken down. Oftentimes it doesn’t even look very good. It’s a...

A Wretched Species

Bloated Wretches in cowboy hats and Wrangler jeans, guts hanging, endlessly promoting their bloated self-interests. Texas-sized ugly where relationships through firearms are only thing they understand. How many lives have they snuffed out to satisfy their damaged...

Consume

“… our only relationship with other beings and other things is to consume them. From one end of the country to the other, we have all been harnessed together into a great devouring machine, consuming plants, animals, vistas, beauty and resources of every...

Dying in a Sea of Brown-Green

And red. “sustainable and wise use principles, conservation and respectful harvesting, sound scientific management and internationally accepted sustainable use” That’s how they die.

Killing the World: Shrimp

Farmed shrimp is a gourmet product, not a dietary staple. It is, as Elaine Corets remarked to me in Brazil, “an exotic species farmed in ponds created by destroying local ecosystems and exported to wealthy countries for the consumption of overweight people who...

Bradley Broke The Law

He hasn’t been to trial yet, nor has he been convicted of anything, but he’s been tortured in custody. Jumping the gun a bit? Nope, just the way we’re used to treating prisoners now. It was the impression of some in the “civilized world”...

It Really Is A Killing Machine

I saw hundreds of thousands of metal machines. They run on gasoline (or diesel) and denial. I saw many smashed bodies of animals, both wild and domestic. This is considered “normal” so there’s even a word for it, “road kill”. We are...

Where Is Our Guiding Aesthetic?

What is a brain w/o a heart? What is intellect w/o sensibility? What is science without benevolent purpose and outputs? A monster.

One Small Step

One small step Out of the blood Out of the fear stench Of the global abattoir

Our Lifestyle

Our comforts, our “achievements”, even our “recreation” requires the contamination of the atmosphere and the ocean, the deliberate and incidental killing of wildlife, the obliteration and destruction of the natural world. The mass production...

Failing

Because we care more about our car stereos than our topsoil and water, and certainly air. Industrialdisconnect consumersociety fails itself beyond any possible redemption every minute every day. It’s chilling and devastating and horrible every day. Why must we...