From 1e57a1de023cd324282fc2ac34f63e8dd68e16e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 16:37:12 +0100 Subject: sarn helen --- log.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scrapbook.md | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/log.md b/log.md index d67d417..32f277c 100644 --- a/log.md +++ b/log.md @@ -4,6 +4,33 @@ title: Dissertation log author: Joe Carstairs --- +## 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. diff --git a/scrapbook.md b/scrapbook.md index 8d07164..5131d6e 100644 --- a/scrapbook.md +++ b/scrapbook.md @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ author: Joe Carstairs 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 @@ -37,6 +39,8 @@ author: Joe Carstairs - @{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, -- cgit v1.2.3