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Activists often rebuke spiritual devotees. Eisenstein articulates the critique like this: “If the house were burning down, would you just sit there and meditate, visualizing cool waterfalls to put out the fire through the power of manifestation? Well, the figurative house is burning down, around us right now. The deserts are spreading, the coral reefs are dying, and the last of the indigenous are being wiped out. And there you are in the middle of it all, contemplating the cosmic sound OM.”
No Bad Parts
Richard C. Schwartz and Alanis Morissette
We will have to pay ourselves to decarbonize — pay ourselves to do the right things rather than the wrong things.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
By 1700, the best available statistics suggested that England was on track to double only once every 360 years.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
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