Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism Machado de Oliveira Vanessa
A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity--for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living…
Specifikacia Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism Machado de Oliveira Vanessa
A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity--for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times.This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we're part of.Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak