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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
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"The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it." L.Nault
#Interconnected #NatureConnection #EarthWisdom #PartNotApart #EnvironmentalPhilosophy
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"The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it." L.Nault
#Interconnected #NatureConnection #EarthWisdom #PartNotApart #EnvironmentalPhilosophy
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"The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it." L.Nault
#Interconnected #NatureConnection #EarthWisdom #PartNotApart #EnvironmentalPhilosophy
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"The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it." L.Nault
#Interconnected #NatureConnection #EarthWisdom #PartNotApart #EnvironmentalPhilosophy
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"The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it." L.Nault
#Interconnected #NatureConnection #EarthWisdom #PartNotApart #EnvironmentalPhilosophy
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Cool symposium:
2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian #Environmental #Philosophy⏰November 21-22 (free) still going on!
Theme:⛰️#Rivers & 🌊#mountains in #environmentalphilosophy in #Asia
Register➡️https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtfu-pqjwsGtz5J8pH6aGonwE2H9VckAmo#/registration
Program➡️ https://asiaenviphilo.com/naep-online-symposium-2023/naep-2024-online-symposium/
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Cool symposium:
2024 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian #Environmental #Philosophy⏰November 21-22 (free)
Theme:⛰️#Rivers & 🌊#mountains in #environmentalphilosophy in #Asia
Register➡️https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtfu-pqjwsGtz5J8pH6aGonwE2H9VckAmo#/registration
Program➡️ https://asiaenviphilo.com/naep-online-symposium-2023/naep-2024-online-symposium/
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Did anyone here read #TimothyMorton ‘s book “The Ecological Thought” and really like it?
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Did anyone here read #TimothyMorton ‘s book “The Ecological Thought” and really like it?
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Did anyone here read #TimothyMorton ‘s book “The Ecological Thought” and really like it?
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Did anyone here read #TimothyMorton ‘s book “The Ecological Thought” and really like it?
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Did anyone here read #TimothyMorton ‘s book “The Ecological Thought” and really like it?
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A "right to livable space" should guide climate #migration policymaking, argues Simona Capisani from Durham University
at #ecmn23. Going beyond displacement, the framework tackles ethical and normative questions arising from the complexity of #climateMobilitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEQ3JwXuHY
@climatemobilities @geography
#ClimateChange #sustainability #environmentalPhilosophy -
A "right to livable space" should guide climate #migration policymaking, argues Simona Capisani from Durham University
at #ecmn23. Going beyond displacement, the framework tackles ethical and normative questions arising from the complexity of #climateMobilitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEQ3JwXuHY
@climatemobilities @geography
#ClimateChange #sustainability #environmentalPhilosophy -
A "right to livable space" should guide climate #migration policymaking, argues Simona Capisani from Durham University
at #ecmn23. Going beyond displacement, the framework tackles ethical and normative questions arising from the complexity of #climateMobilitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEQ3JwXuHY
@climatemobilities @geography
#ClimateChange #sustainability #environmentalPhilosophy -
A "right to livable space" should guide climate #migration policymaking, argues Simona Capisani from Durham University
at #ecmn23. Going beyond displacement, the framework tackles ethical and normative questions arising from the complexity of #climateMobilitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEQ3JwXuHY
@climatemobilities @geography
#ClimateChange #sustainability #environmentalPhilosophy -
A "right to livable space" should guide climate #migration policymaking, argues Simona Capisani from Durham University
at #ecmn23. Going beyond displacement, the framework tackles ethical and normative questions arising from the complexity of #climateMobilitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEQ3JwXuHY
@climatemobilities @geography
#ClimateChange #sustainability #environmentalPhilosophy -
"...some fear turning away from make-believe shadows on the wall. Fear the reality of our own making. Fear turning away from Mother Culture which has nestled us into blissful ignorance."
https://thetemenosjournal.com/2023/07/26/we-can-do-better/
#climatechange #communitybuilding #CRITIQUEOFCIVILIZATION #CULTURALNARRATIVES #danielquinn #environmentalphilosophy #HOLISTICTHINKING, #ISHMAEL #sustainability #THESTORYOFB -
"...some fear turning away from make-believe shadows on the wall. Fear the reality of our own making. Fear turning away from Mother Culture which has nestled us into blissful ignorance."
https://thetemenosjournal.com/2023/07/26/we-can-do-better/
#climatechange #communitybuilding #CRITIQUEOFCIVILIZATION #CULTURALNARRATIVES #danielquinn #environmentalphilosophy #HOLISTICTHINKING, #ISHMAEL #sustainability #THESTORYOFB -
I'm looking for suggestions on how to find people working on the philosophy of nature conservation and get a primer on where the field stands. Is there a hashtag? Could anybody give me the names of people I should follow? I'm thinking about an interdisciplinary project and would love to sound my ideas against someone's expertise #envhum #environmentalphilosophy #natureconservation
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Environmental Philosophy syllabus coming together! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14nWMJT_4LlFP86wJH8Rmvdf18zeSHmdNrG_iB9slL_8/edit?usp=sharing #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #syllabus
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This coming semester I'll be teaching an #undergrad #EnvironmentalPhilosophy course. I have one week to cover both#Aldo Leopold and #RachelCarson. If I only cover one, which one and why?
