Humanure
BEING EMBEDDED in this industrial paradigm makes it difficult to acknowledge the underlying assumptions of our cradle-to-grave culture, much less challenge them. Surrounded by processes in which living things are packaged as products and rendered lifeless, it’s easy to forget that every other species on the planet — and every other previous human culture — will increase its own standard of living and improve the quality of its ecosystem at the same time. If you live in the City of Toronto or its outlying areas, then you probably can’t see the futuristic forest for the technological trees. But if we don’t step up and manifest some collective culture-change quickly, then pretty soon we won’t be able to see the forest or any trees — both figuratively and literally.
