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Published in Dark Mountain 1, May 2010
Today’s environmentalism is as much a victim of the contemporary cult of utility as every other aspect of our lives, from science to education. We are not environmentalists now because we have an emotional reaction to the wild world. In this country, most of us wouldn’t even know where to find it. We are environmentalists now in order to promote something called ‘sustainability’. What…
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A talk given at the Big Tent Festival in Scotland, July 2010
I’m going to try now to explain what the Dark Mountain project is – how it came about ’ what it is for ’ and where it is going? I say ‘try’ because one thing I have discovered about Dark Mountain is that it is curiously hard to explain. Often people ask me what it is, expecting a short summary, and I find that…
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What happens when you stop pretending?
For nearly twenty years I have written about, and campaigned on, what we have all learned to call ‘environmental issues.’ I worked, as so many have and do, to try and stop the human machine from devastating the natural world. There were some successes. But there weren’t enough.
It was around 2008 that I began to accept, reluctantly,…
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Published on the Dark Mountain blog, 15 February 2011
Be a poppy then, in the face of the Machine? It seems, to me, a good task to set myself. To wait and learn and save and sow seeds and wait for them to flower, knowing that they may not do so in my lifetime. In an age of loss, our task is surely to keep safe what we can when the Machine passes…
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Published on the Dark Mountain blog, 21 April 2011
The green movement has torpedoed itself with numbers. Its single-minded obsession with climate change, and its insistence on seeing this as an engineering challenge which must be overcome with technological solutions guided by the neutral gaze of Science, has forced it into a ghetto from which it may never escape.
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Published in Dark Mountain issue 2, June 2011
The late Glyn Hughes summed up his work – the historical novels, the travel books, the semi-autobiographies, the volumes of poetry – as ‘a protest on behalf of nature’.
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Published in the Guardian, 26 September 2011
The crisis currently playing out on the world stage is a crisis of growth. Not, as we are regularly told, a crisis caused by too little growth, but by too much of it
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Published in Dark Mountain issue 2, June 2011
Suicide is everywhere in this culture, under every stone, and once you come to be a part of that great, unspeaking clan of people who have been touched by it, you see this.
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