Ecology & Consciousness: What Must Be Done

Pennaceous epidermal growth of Meleagris gallopavo, detail (photo by author)

(This is part 1 of a trilogy. See part 2: Ecology & Economy and part 3: Ecology & Empire)

There are the things that must happen. Then there are the things we want, the things we believe, and the things we do.

By “we” I mean virtually everybody in the civilized world. This is the collective “we”: not merely a number of individuals, but their sum. A “we” with its own…