My interest is piqued! I just hope the author doesn't conflate or blur the edges between our animal kin and non-sentient rivers, robots, and corporations.

It doesn't care, and all our significance is really all we endow ourselves and each other with, but, for me, that is enough. The universe doesn't care about us, but I really believe we're better off caring about all of it, even spiritually. Let us revel in our insignificance and know it as awe.

The fact that they think that securing the nitrates derogation is a "win for agriculture" is such a tragicomedy. Ireland's agricultural approach is yet one more synedoche for the entire capitalist system's unconscious death drive. :(

Nonfiction recommendations 👍!
Nonfiction: The Lie of the Land, J. Gibbons, Matrescence, The World After Gaza.

Fiction: Lord of the Rings, The Last Unicorn, The Witcher Series!

BTW, this is the same person, different account. 😊

It is centred on Ireland's responsibility, but without omitting to emphasise the global-ness and the general magnitude of the crisis for which Ireland's has a responsibility. I don't want to mischaracterise the book. A lot of what Ireland has to do would apply elsewhere. We're all connected.

Thanks for asking for the rest of us.

Our governments have failed us. They are, in fact, complicit. What's the point in continuing to beseech them? We have radical and wholesale change *immediately*, *two decades ago*, OR we only have each other.

Your presence would be deeply appreciated here in Ireland, George, if you ever have the time.

Oh, 100%! I commend the volunteers! I just feel that they are deserving of contributions towards their livelihoods while the rest of us benefit. On one hand, it's rarely the rich who dedicate time to these sorts of causes, but on the other hand, there are many of us who can't afford to.

This is work worthy of payment. Imagine the valuable gains that could be made if people were employed at scale to do this work. Instead we are forced into socially and environmentally destructive jobs void of meaning.

Sure, you can replace them, nationalise everything, have a supremely powerful state, but what about the state itself? If it is a tool of supreme power, it's always going to be a temptation for corrupting influences and would-be despots. What do we do to prevent that? Who is the "good authority"?

Layers of epiphytes 😍

Power to the people

The problem is the state is in bed with corporate interests when it is not one and the same thing. You need to wrest power from them violently, because I can't see them giving it freely, can you? And then there's no guarantee that any future concentration of power will not be corrupted.