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New badge/pin design, baby! 😁
I unfortunately don't know who that og artist of the symbol is :/ This was inspired by people calling radical groups who steal animals from unethical farms terrorism
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Anti-Tech Introductory Reading List
Industrial Society and Its Future
Technological Slavery
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
The Technological Society
Walden
The Hermeneutics of Ecological Limitation
We live in a highly technologized world that is hostile to human well-being. Every technological advance comes at a sharp cost to human freedom and the natural world.
[Start with ISAIF (a very brief and worthwhile read), then move on to Technological Slavery. If you are interested in further anti-tech writings—or want to get involved—check out Wilderness Front.]
The Philosophy of Environmental Philosophy
Environmental philosophy is the branch of philosophy that explores the ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological dimensions of the relationship between humans and the natural world. It questions our place within nature, our responsibilities toward it, and how we should live in relation to the planet and its ecosystems.
Core Questions and Concerns:
1. What is the value of nature? One of the central concerns is whether nature has intrinsic value (value in itself) or instrumental value (value only in relation to human needs). Environmental philosophers challenge anthropocentric (human-centered) worldviews and explore ecocentric or biocentric alternatives that place ecosystems or all life forms at the center of moral concern.
2. How should humans relate to the environment? This question leads to various ethical positions, including:
Deep ecology, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all living beings and advocates a radical shift in human consciousness.
Ecofeminism, which links environmental degradation with the oppression of women and other marginalized groups.
Land ethics, inspired by Aldo Leopold, which encourages seeing humans as members of a broader biotic community.
3. What responsibilities do we have toward future generations? Environmental philosophy tackles intergenerational justice, asking what duties we have to those who will live after us, especially in the context of climate change, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss.
4. How do culture, language, and economics affect our treatment of nature? Environmental thinkers explore how ideologies, capitalist structures, and industrial paradigms influence environmental degradation. They also analyze how language shapes our perception of nature—whether as "resource," "wilderness," or "home."
5. Can we truly separate humans from nature? Some philosophers argue that seeing humans as separate from nature is part of the problem. Environmental philosophy encourages a rethinking of this dualism, viewing humans as embedded within and dependent on ecological systems.
And the essential step toward silencing nonhuman voices was imagining that only humans were capable of telling stories ... what is at stake is not so much storytelling itself but, rather, who can make meaning, and that we’ve put the ability to make meaning purely within the human realm.
- Vaughan Lee, E. (2022) Beings Seen and Unseen: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh, Emergence Magazine.
In The Ecology of Freedom (1982), Bookchin argued that the domination of nature was a secondary phenomenon to the domination of humans by other humans. It was an outgrowth of human hierarchy. Abolishing hierarchy from human society would simultaneously root out human domination over nature. Bookchin laid bare the criticism that ecocentrism, and environmentalism more generally, had received from those on the radical left struggling for social justice: that Earth First! had the timeline of justice exactly backward. Liberate the people and the trees will follow.
Lynne Feeley, Earth First? On “The Ecocentrists” and Pregnancy in the Anthropocene
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I am alien to the noises of cities, of people, to the greed of machinery that does not sleep, the hum of power that eats up the night. Where rain, sunlight and darkness are contemned, I cannot sleep. I do not trust anything that has been fabricated to replace the climate of woods or prairies. I can have no confidence in places where the air is first fouled and then cleansed, where the water is first made deadly and then made safe with other poisons. There is nothing in the world of buildings that is not fabricated, and if a tree gets in among the apartment houses by mistake it is taught to grow chemically. It is given a precise reason for existing. They put a sign on it saying it is for health, beauty, perspective; that it is for peace, for prosperity; that it was planted by the mayor’s daughter. All of this is mystification. The city itself lives on its own myth. Instead of waking up and silently existing, the city people prefer a stubborn and fabricated dream; they do not care to be a part of the night, or to be merely of the world. They have constructed a world outside the world, against the world, a world of mechanical fictions which contemn nature and seek only to use it up, thus preventing it from renewing itself and man.
Thomas Merton • Raids On The Unspeakable
“City for Bats” workshop was held on the 14th of February 2017 at Girne American University. This workshop organized as the warm up activity of the 4th year design studio in the B.Arch. degree program with the title of “Non-Anthropocentric Urban Design Studio”. In addition to myself and Dr. Senem Zeybekoğlu, we invited Mr. Tuğberk Emirzade from the Cyprus Biologists Association and Mr. Kenan Güvenç as the guest lecturers to take part in this workshop. Mr. Emirzade in his lecture shared information on the life and characteristics of bats and conclude his speech with introducing 18 species of bats living in Cyprus. Mr. Güvenç was the second speaker of the event and he discussed on anthropocentric perceptions and its challenges with special focus on architecture and urbanism. 32 participated students in the workshop established groups to collaboratively develop bats friendly strategies for cities in Cyprus. They made their presentations at the end of the workshop.
This is your reminder that it's not always illegal to plant noninvasive plants in most places!
Please check if your area allows free planting in public spaces, and if what you want to plant goes well with native ecosystems already existing there. You also usually need a special permission for planting trees so be careful with that.