The anthropocene is a complex, tentative notion in my mind that is steadily gaining traction. From my first introductions to philosophy to dummy, I bought right into relativity and jumped right off of the nonlinearity train. And so now, the move to systems theory does not seem so far off. A particular point of fascination for me is the aspect… Read more »
Within the past year, I underwent a personal transformation following a severe mental health crisis that forced me to briefly withdraw from school. I found therapy in the most unlikely of places: stories. I read books on the human condition. I found companionship among patients at the hospital as they poured their hearts out in an unfamiliar “language”: emotion. I… Read more »
Through my learnings so far about the Anthropocene the things aspect that stands out the most is that we know nothing, and when I say nothing I mean what fools we are to put ourselves in a predicament like this without a plan. In my time on this planet, in this epoch I’ve learned a few important things such as… Read more »
Walt Whitman once wrote, “You air that serves me with breath to speak…You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!… I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.” Despite how personally we interpret the phenomenon of nature, the world around us is so much more complicated that we can… Read more »
We have all heard about global warming. Politicians, scientists and the media battle daily over this issue. Yet, many seem to forget a key aspect of global warming, the fact that it is global. This is not an individual issue, something a county or state can amend. Not even nationwide activism can solve global warming. To begin a reversal, or… Read more »
The point of this class is to care enough to learn and then spread awareness about the impact of our actions. I came in not knowing what the word ‘Anthropocene’ meant. I now know it means humans are a geological force. We are glaciers and meteors and our change is affecting the entire world. However, with the dawning realization of… Read more »
Sitting 11,000 feet above sea level I realized how people affect me. Perched in front of a Buddhist monastery in the village of Upper Pisang, along the Annapurna Circuit Trek, in the Nepalese Himalaya I found my collectivist agenda. While I sat at this ramshackle monastery thousands of feet in the air, two Russian travelers sat beside me…. Read more »
Out of all the readings, class discussions, and media I’ve covered so far for this class I was by far the most taken aback by Donella Meadows’s piece, Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. Reading this piece turned into such a delight for me, a rare experience where just reading her writing made me fully aware of how… Read more »
Written at 11:00 AM 10.8.2017 I think it’s fascinating to be alive at such a pivotal point for humanity. Not only do I bear witness to the sour fruits of the industrial revolution but I see a future where science fiction becomes reality. I recently read an article on the subject of quantum computing, a topic I’ve closely followed since… Read more »
What really stood out to me in the past couple of weeks has been my personal impact in releasing pollutants into the atmosphere. I do not consider myself a wasteful person, but my calculated carbon footprint was over 10 times what was considered sustainable. It is crazy to think that an eight hour airplane flight in itself would qualify a… Read more »