Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

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.

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.