Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.

A language Older Than Words

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.