Underland

8/26/21

Hi all: This week in curated Anthropocene news, I’m reducing the homework load as a way of especially recommending two essays which cut deeply into our tendency to hope rather than act. The first is a fifteen year old essay by Derrick Jensen, “Beyond Hope,” from the Orion archives, where it is still being read and discussed. I taught the essay many times over several years, and it never failed to fire up my students. The second is a recent opinion piece by Louise Fabiani in Mother Jones, charting “The Perils of Magical Environmental Thinking.” Let me know what you think. Comments are always welcome.