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People who think that replacing a wild ecosystem (left pic) with a solar plant (right pic) is "good for the environment" are seriously delusional. Solar panels require a global supply chain, (fossil fuel-based) mining and refining of rare-earth minerals, denuding of areas, and regular washing, all of which are extremely ecologically destructive. They also have a relatively short life and become problematic toxic waste afterwards. Humans have existed sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the advent of civilization and thrived - believe it or not - without any of these 'green' energy technologies. If we wish to survive and thrive again we must return to those ways.

I 🫶 moss…& sunny February strolls🪵🌱🌞✨

happy earth day! @dotzines released Earth Love 2023, a zine dedicated to ultimate madoka! this was my contribution to it! it was an honor to be apart of this project and im so in love with all the work. download it! it's 100% free!

https://dotzines.itch.io/earth-love-2023

Planets: Earth

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

I'm gonna create a new religion because I feel like it.

Planets or maybe just celestial bodies in general are the deities. Earth/Mother nature is our Deity. The Earth will have dei/deim/deir/deimself pronouns because why not, planets don't need genders we can just emphasize their deityness. Dei created humans to watch over deir creations and embody deir spirit. Dei made us intensely social creatures so that we could connect with and care for the rest of deir creations. Dei is quite disappointed with the things we are doing to our planet and environment right now. Our purpose is to love and care for deir creations, which also includes ourselves and our fellow humans. We should go back to our purpose and honor Mother Nature as we were meant to do.

Yeah, I think that's a religion I could actually follow. Anyone got any name suggestions? That's the one thing I'm really blanking on.

Or practices, both spiritual and practical. I'm gonna start brainstorming those and maybe make some mythologies as a creative writing project. Or a conlang? I love conlangs, I'd be down to make one for it that's super nature based if even a single other person would be interested in learning it.

eārth wörship .:. @earthjournalbyawildrose

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Happy Earth Day!! I participated in @dotzines ‘s Earth Love 2023 Ultimate Madoka zine, and here is my piece!!  Check out everyone else’s piece here!!

window naps 🪴🤍

What are your thoughts on how many anarcho-primitivist/luddite/anticiv spaces have been taken over by right-wing types? It seems less people are actually engaging in primitivist thought and more so thinking it's "based" and "trad."

I saw how you got downvoted for insulting whatalthist, and this is what led me to ask this question.

I'm assuming you're referring to online spaces. There's a strong effort by the right to co-opt primitivism. There are some forums that are frequented by right-wingers, though they're in the minority; most problematic spaces are the ones about Kaczynski and things directly related to him. There are also many social media accounts that express primitivistic ideas in combination with authoritarian and rightist politics (e.g. individuals who adore both Ted Kaczynski and Pentti Linkola). Most concerning to me are actually the offline examples that get press coverage.

I see this as being both due to deliberate efforts to co-opt primitivism, much in the manner Nazis co-opted socialism, and due to ignorance on the part of many right-wingers. It isn't too hard to misinterpret Kaczynski's remarks about leftism if you read him inattentively, and conclude that he must be some sort of right-winger. Ted's mistake was focusing on attacking the left too much and worrying too little about the right, but at the time he wrote his manifesto this choice made sense.

Ted was a fan of Earth First! and when he wrote Industrial Society and its Future the wounds of an ideological split within it were still fresh. EF! started out as a truly ecocentric movement with extremely narrow goals of protecting the wilderness from the ravages of industrialism and other harm caused by civilized humans. After gaining a lot of momentum, EF! attracted thousands of newcomers, many of whom leaned more to the side of leftist humanism than deep ecology, causing conflict — the newcomers were trying to transform the movement into one about ecology-related social justice issues, while the original Earth First!ers preferred to only focus on wilderness conservation. (For more on this check out Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse by Martha F. Lee). The right-wing in America at the time was comprised mostly of people who were staunch prometheans, warmongers, etc., and Ted rightly assumed they weren't going to take over his movement. However as the political climate changed they became one.

The US and the rest of the "West" seems to be experiencing a rise in right-wing back-to-nature ideas, similar in many ways to the so-called "right-wing hippies" of the Weimar republic. I'm talking about doomsday preppers, christian nationalist communes, etc. Kaczynski did not anticipate this, and by the time news about who was adopting (some of) his ideas — not just anarchists and former Earth First!ers, but people including the Greek fascist Golden Dawn party, and Andreas Breivik — reached Kaczynski in his supermax prison it was a bit late. He penned a short note titled Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism in 2020, arguing against their ideas and saying he's their enemy. However, more people read and will read ISAIF in the future than this obscure note and the few other scattered critiques of the right that can be found throughout his work.

What we need to do is to aggressively shun these types until we successfully repel them. This applies to real life and online interactions. There will always be some who'll try to co-opt primitivism, but this big wave needs to be halted. There are also some who are genuinely willing to learn and adjust their beliefs, but they're few in between. It's necessary to distinguish between the two, keep the latter and reject the former.

My life is a constant prayer of gratitude to the earth 🌿

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖘 G.A24

This is one of the many reasons why I thrift. 🥰

As I clear out what is no longer needed from my life.. I am making space for the new.

Been too busy for too long… things to do just to survive (work to pay for rent and food), have left little time for what I really want to do.

Been aiming for a more minimalistic lifestyle, for a few years now. I’ll tell you, having less things clears out some headspace. And now, finally giving myself time to relax before starting a new chapter in my life, I can step back and take a better look at the bigger picture.

What I really want to do are things that will positively impact big parts of the Earth. After some eye-opening events, I see now that it is more important than just about anything else. I have a lot of ideas, and it all begins with writing them down. That is the first step to manifesting. Or second, if you count thinking of it as step 1. Could also dream about it, meditate on it, but those are all mental. So writing it is the first physical step.

The beauty of it is, nothing has to be any certain way. Not at all. Everything will turn out exactly as it’s supposed to be. So why stress about it? There is only so much we can control.. our own actions. That’s it. Everything else is up to the Universe, which is much bigger than us, and works in magical unknown ways. Connecting more deeply with it, it shows me exactly what I am supposed to do. It’s up to me, but I am supposed to do these things, to keep the energy flowing better.

A big shift has happened. A lot is changing.

Let us connect with our Earth. May we apologize for any disrespect, and promise to do our part to take better care of it. Earth needs our love and our attention. Disgusting acts of greed must stop destroying our planet. Let us appreciate her beauty. 

I love the Earth. It is my home. Our home. Has been for many lifetimes. Let’s keep them coming, for a long time. Let’s turn this story around, in regard to how much humans have hurt the Earth. Let’s leave the oceans alone. Let’s find a way to use garbage as energy fuel. I live close to a landfill that has been polluting our air. They’ve been doing it all wrong. We need big changes.

That’s where my focus has been shifting. We’ve got a lot of work to do. Follow my journey.

DiM forever!