We can’t agree on emissions, or on Covid infections. We don’t talk about *why* we have emissions, or…

We can’t agree on emissions, or on Covid infections. We don’t talk about *why* we have emissions, or pandemics. It’s very difficult to make progress without getting to the why, on anything. Emissions and infections are only by-products of that why. /1 https://t.co/foq3tGiGQf

The ‘Economy’ is that why. A code word for continuous, energy-hungry dislocation. Travel, trade, supply chains, hypermobility. Do we stop to question why, for any of these things? Why our passion is to continuously move and disrupt? What are we continuously running away from? /2

Underneath these surface outcomes of pollution and infection, are cultures desperate to avoid looking at themselves. Why ‘lockdowns’ sent them into such a spin, to be forced to stop for a while and keep our own company, and not *do* anything? Torture. Always bored, needing…/3

…new distractions. Distracting ourselves, from ourselves. Cultures without grounding. Uprooting habitats and customs and traditions, to force our economic supply chains through. Chains that feed our constant need of distraction, from ourselves. /end