Past 100 retweets for “Cutting Through Spiritual Colonialism” People are asking “so what do we do?” The yoga of our age is sustainability. Right Action, Yamas and Niyamas, must be reinterpreted in light of environmental science. Life must be designed not to harm other life.https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1262207937864503297 …
I am not comfortable with the implications of regarding ecological stability as the highest good, and I think nothing short of a dictatorship would make people do so. Human culture and civilization is a flight from nature. Nature has its own horrors.
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It also leaves in a poor position to critique cruelties and brutalities when they themselves do not endanger ecological equilibrium.
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I don't think the goal is ecological equilibrium. The goal is not geoengineering ourselves into extinction, killing several billion canaries in coal mines on the way there.
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Is a beaver building a dam a flight from nature? Meerkats and their social etiquettes? Bees and their honeycombs? Where do we draw the line? We're just beavers building more complicated dams that are slowly destroying our ability to keep living. We can do better.
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I would say exterminating all the predators in a region to make it safe for ourselves, our children and our livestock is a flight from nature.
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We all starve to death (well, many billions) if we not put ecological stability first. We can sacrifice consumer capitalism rather than human rights, largely through accurate pricing of ecosystem services. It does not have to be stalin like. But it needs done.
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