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Ugh ... We're raping the environment. This is discussing how we can keep our victim alive so we can rape more.
Why can't we just dial back on the rape of nature?
Look, we'll just have to figure out what a sustainable rape would be.
Heh ... I was hemming a bit melodramatic yesterday, but that's what this conversation always feels like to me. We have this fundamentally usurious and destructive relationship with an other (Earth), and we're trying to figure out ways that we can keep using, but not have her die on us.
Why don't we just live a more reciprocal and life-giving relationship. If we could collectively decide to live simple lives with less stuff and more experiences and community we could have healthy planet and I bet we'd be happier too.
... but you know,. It takes some vision.
Anecdote time!
We have a tree growing up through our deck we built around the tree, it's been growing for sixteen years now since bailing the deck, we keep removing bits of the deck to make room for the tree.
Someone asked us why we don't just cut the tree down instead.
Two fundamentally different schools of thoughts.