While it’s wonderful to realize that we may be on the cusp of total transformation, a complete paradigm shift from biblical “dominion over nature” to indigenous “being a part of nature,” from “Earth belongs to us” to “We belong to the Earth,” let us remember, with Derrick Jensen that “One of the things that this culture excels at is taking any movement for justice and sanity and co-opting it into furthering the ends of this culture . . .”

“‘Sustainability’ is about sustaining this culture for a little bit longer — this culture that is killing the real world.” Including all the new renewable energy technologies . . like “sacrificing the desert to save the planet, by installing huge solar arrays in the desert.”

“This culture has long conflated itself with the real world. It’s so narcissistic that it thinks it is the world, that this culture is what needs to be sustained. We are taught from a very early age that this culture IS the world. That if this culture goes, then everything good will end. Well, I don’t think the meadow larks would think that. I don’t think the prairie dogs would think that.”

And, speaking of excavating and letting go of our cultural

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in “dominion,” let’s recall Native American John Trudell’s perspective on the contrast between Religion and Spirituality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It98ibhbpUU

Transformation does not imply lifting ourselves above an old world-view, but rather excavating the bowels of our unconscious collective mind of the horribly wrongheaded and ultimately eco-suicidal attitude that we are separate from Nature, that we stand above Her, that She is ours to do with what we will.