A Gaian Perspective on Politics
Politics from a planetary perspective
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati Roy, “War Talk”
“…we must recognise that because the earth is the source of all life, the health of the earth must be the primary consideration in our decision-making processes.”
“Bright Green Lies”, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert.
“We’re losing the fight, badly and quickly — losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilisation is in.”
Bill McKibben, in “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, Rolling Stone, 2nd August 2012.
