Started on October 9, 2023
Solving climate change means to transform relationships of power
(I use 'solving climate change' synonymous with healing our social-ecological systems from unnecessary suffering, violence, and degradation.)
Gopal Dayaneni is the one whose words have left an imprint on me regarding the idea that
The cause of the crisis is in the injustice, so we need to transform relationships of power.
~ Gopal Dayaneni
You don't get to this place of earth system disruption without an enormous amount of coercion.
Mountains don't blow up by themselves, you need to control labor & capital.~ Gopal Dayaneni
-Gopal Dayaneni @ Pachamama Conference 2023
(disruption & coercion relate to EXTRACTION-A)
He and Linda Vanasupa have continuously pointed at the key-leverage point to address the cause of climate change by re-learning and re-integrating the practice of the values cooperation, care, and consent.
No technical solution can address the root cause of climate change if it doesn’t intentionally change the place from which we operate (also known as ONTOLOGICAL-PRIMITIVES).