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+## 2026-05-13
+
+### @{sarn-helen}
+
+> \[…] the climate and ecological emergency is not, in the end, a scientific
+> problem. Science might provide the tools to understand its nature, to model
+> and to mitigate, but the emergency is a symptom, it is not a cause. The cause
+> is us: our deluded conviction that we can live in isolation from the world.
+
+The solution for Bullough:
+
+> \[…] a reinvention of our society and economy around completely different
+> principles.
+
+What sort of principles? How? He doesn't say. But he does say that although some
+people look to 'indigenous' societies for inspiration, we can't import what they
+do into Wales, solutions have to be indigenous to place. But the examples of
+Wales' 5th and 6th-century saints shows that there is an indigenous strain to
+Welsh culture of 'putting nature first.'
+
+Between 'our deluded conviction' and the call for a culture shift to 'put nature
+first', I get the sense Bullough thinks the problem is fundamentally cultural.
+We trash nature because we don't value it enough. This makes sense if you think
+that society as a whole behaves in line with the homogeneous values of its
+people. This is thus a flattening, anti-political, rationalist discourse in my
+opinion.
+
 ## 2026-05-11
 
 I have a new argument.
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   solution as learn-know-act, because they lead high-consumption lifestyles, and
   because they believe in a meritocratic ideology. This emphasis on knowledge
   comes out in the 'believe the science' discourse
+- @{sarn-helen} implies that the reason we trash nature is because we culturally
+  place too low a value on it
 
 ## Evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric obstructs appropriate responses to ongoing harms
 
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 - @{inconvenient-truth} must be a go-to. See the credits especially.
 - @{forget-me-not}, especially the Epilogue
 - @{greenpeace-report} is a particularly egregious example of the magic 'we'
+- @{sarn-helen} implies that the reason we trash nature is because we culturally
+  place too low a value on it
 
 @{no-one-is-too-small}, @{xr-declaration}, and @{xr-not-a-drill} are good
 contrasts: it emphasises that the audience is not, at least not entirely,