2 responses to “Think Fast, Live Slow: Coming to Terms with ‘Slow Violence’ as ‘Natural’ Disaster”
Great talk. Love the emphasis on speed: *thinking fast but *living slow. I can’t help but mention the economic constraints weighing on people who I’m sure would love to spend more time attending to the biota in the forest. If the speed of human life imposed by a model of economic growth does not change, there is little individuals, groups, communities, or nations can do to have an earth wide, geo-scale effect. Rethinking money and debt might be the most ecological mode of inquiry at this point.
oh yeah if those of us living in the 1st (most consuming) parts of the world don’t put the emergency breaks on very soon we are all heading over the cliff (like the old peacenik bumper-sticker said “live simply so that others can simply live”), not a small part of why we are focusing here on how to try and remain humane while everything collapses in on us as we are not as sanguine as this speaker about our odds, human-critters being what they be and all… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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Great talk. Love the emphasis on speed: *thinking fast but *living slow. I can’t help but mention the economic constraints weighing on people who I’m sure would love to spend more time attending to the biota in the forest. If the speed of human life imposed by a model of economic growth does not change, there is little individuals, groups, communities, or nations can do to have an earth wide, geo-scale effect. Rethinking money and debt might be the most ecological mode of inquiry at this point.
oh yeah if those of us living in the 1st (most consuming) parts of the world don’t put the emergency breaks on very soon we are all heading over the cliff (like the old peacenik bumper-sticker said “live simply so that others can simply live”), not a small part of why we are focusing here on how to try and remain humane while everything collapses in on us as we are not as sanguine as this speaker about our odds, human-critters being what they be and all…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases