“Scare tactics won’t stop defence of established rights” – Rob Campbell on Newsroom excoriating Mathew Hooten and Chris Trotter
Posted: February 8, 2024 Filed under: Other, responses | Tags: Anthropocene Age, Chris Trotter, ecosystem, Judd, Mathew Hooten, Monroe Doctrine, Newsroom, Rob Campbell, terror Leave a commentNew (to me) expressions of concern about violent revolution have been expressed. Rob Campbell responds trying to calm down the rhetoric.
Read more: “Scare tactics won’t stop defence of established rights” – Rob Campbell on Newsroom excoriating Mathew Hooten and Chris TrotterThomas Jefferson’s promotion of ‘free inquiry’ is hopeful. But it does not describe the movement of history in his America, and some other places. Exploitation has dominated. Not only slavery, or the doctrine of regional dominance (Monroe Doctrine), or even of white supremacy which has responded openly to the challenge it has experienced in our time from the 60s. More influential has been the application of human separation and superiority over the planet and all its ecosystems. That is the most fundamental form of exploitation.
For all of these useful observations from Campbell and Judd, et al, to be a guide to a future they will need to be seen in the larger context that people are terrified at the knowledge that only fundamental change in the way society is organized can adequately address the challenge of a climate change world in the Anthropocene Age. That terror is where the greatest instability is likely to rise.
The Listener article by Paul Little on Dame Ann Salmond and her journey of learning new perspectives
Posted: November 29, 2023 Filed under: Letters | Tags: 'who we are', "who are we", Anne Salmond, Anthropocene Age, Jacinda Ardern, Paul Little, Treaty of Waitangi, Whakapapa Leave a commentThe Editor, The Listener, Auckland
28/11/ 2023
Dear Editor:
The Listener article by Paul Little on Dame Anne Salmond’s new book, Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind, emphasizes her journey with people she has met and learned from (connectivity), where she has gained new perspectives, a new way to see the world, a new way to understand what the world we have lived through has been.
Read more: The Listener article by Paul Little on Dame Ann Salmond and her journey of learning new perspectivesIt is important to note that for a long time (she) had been taking a keen interest in the connections between people and the environment (eco-sphere). “Whakapapa is about seeing ourselves as just one life from among many . . .”. “This is bigger than the treaty because this is about survival.”
Former PM Ardern, at the time of the mosque attacks in Christchurch, said that this is not ‘who we are’. That question is crucial. “Who we have been”, “who we are”, and “who we must become’ are the cultural / historical questions we must confront. Salmond is one of the few writers I see today who captures what we all know, but are terrified of, that only significant change in ‘who we are’ will suffice to adjust to the new world of climate change, in the Anthropocene era.
Richard Keller
published (9-15 / 12 / 23)
Buy less? Consume less unnecessary stuff?
Posted: November 27, 2022 Filed under: Letters | Tags: Anthropocene Age, billionaires, Black Friday, CO2 emissions, consumption, fear, fossil fuels, New Zealand, Reserve Bank, The Listener, well being budget Leave a commentThis letter is another one of my attempts to describe a bigger collective / historical context.
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