Desert

This is a (long!) piece by a green anarchist discussing what it means to be an ecologist and an anarchist in a world that, if we're honest with ourselves, will not be "saved", either from an ecological or political point of view. It's a full book at roughly 50,000 words so maybe bookmark this post and come back in a week? Not sure how to deal with really long form content here, but I thought it was an interested read and wanted to share it.

To be disillusioned — with ‘Global Revolution’ and with our capacity to ‘Save the Earth’ — should not alter our anarchist nature, or the love of nature we feel as anarchists. There are many possibilities for liberty and wildness still. What are some of these possibilities and how can we live them? What objectives, what plans, what lives, what adventures are there when the illusions are set aside and we walk into the world not disabled by disillusionment but unburdened by it?

I also posted this in ~enviro since while it's a political piece its politics are defined by ecological concerns. Maybe it belongs elsewhere though!

e: another quote I like

Given our obvious inability to re-make the entire world the way we might like it to be, some replace the myth of ‘global revolution’ with a belief in imminent ‘global collapse’ — these days usually some mix of climate change and peak oil. As we shall see later (both in the next chapters and our future years) global heating will severely challenge civilisation in some areas and probably vanquish it in others. Yet in some regions it will likely open up possibilities for the spread of civilisations rule. Some lands may remain (relatively) temperate — climatically and socially. As for civilisation, so for anarchy and anarchists — severely challenged, sometimes vanquished; possibilities for liberty and wildness opening up, possibilities for liberty and wildness closing. The unevenness of the present will be made more so. There is no global future.