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Paul Kingsnorth on our Inability to See the World Clearly
Posted by Sharon Astyk on January 25, 2011
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Paul Kingsnorth has a brilliant article on what underlies the disproportion in attention between flooding in the Global South and Global North, and what it says about how we see the world: This imperial narrative morphed, after the death of the Western empires, into the narrative of ‘development’ that we still cleave to today (I…
Still Far Away and on a Dark Mountain
Posted by Sharon Astyk on February 1, 2010 At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird’s cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind. The sun was rising at six, No longer a battered panache above the snow… It would have…