Starseed

In college I learned 
what they mean by
mind-blown 

….

PHL 2015
*Environmental Ethics* 
POV: isolated WF 
19yo

….

The Ecological Thought, 
it’s all connected 

Silent Spring, 
planet poisons and pests
Chlorinated hydrocarbons 
Organic phosphates 
Mississippi Dead Zone 

The Land Ethic, 
Including plants and animals 
in the circle of compassion 

!
Land is energy that flows through a system 
!

Democracy, 
the myth of

Descartes 
thinks you gotta have a soul to feel pain 
That is, 
culture believes 
some kinds of suffering is not suffering 

Deep Ecology:
Everything that exists, 
exists for a reason. 
Identifying this reason is value 
Intrinsically 
“In and of itself”

Education, 
the ability to trade knowledge for money.  
.The calculation of minimum wage directly correlates to how much a person is valued based on what they know. 

Language is a system; a word means nothing if not related to other words. 
Which convictions are products of social force?

Ecofeminism 
The domination of women and that of nonhuman nature is the same 

*becoming is in between being and nothingness* 

The amount of things we need is culturally specific. 
What encourages us to have too much? 
Developmentalism promises social progress……………. 

The Industrial Revolution
to get more of something per amount of human labor 

Labor = Time; Life = Time 
How to spend time & give to it someone else 
Labor, the commodity 
Determined by supply and demand 
Simpler jobs cost less, 
So make jobs easier by dividing labor
Necessarily paid less than the value created 

///Capital is used to make more capital 
The system that creates inequality 
& explains it away via competition 
“The survival of the fittest” 

Go ahead and send the excess to the top, then take the waste
Call it natural selection 

The United States is an empire 
w bases in 80ish countries  
Delivering this Word 

& the industrial food chain 
How we are no longer fed by the Sun  
But by monopolies and monocultures; 
fossil fuels & exploitation 
—That it’s 10x more efficient if only we could drink the oil 

Eating as an ethical problem? 
Thank u Michael Pollan 

Pigs are artificially inseminated 
and cloned, caged
Stupefied 
Kept alive 
long enough to, you know 

GMOs

Monsanto— 
How a corporation can engineer
A nation’s food, 
the farmer’s wellbeing
& the environment.

Oh no, water can’t be owned! 
Its part of the global commons 

Evil is a product of ordinary people doing ordinary & habitual things 

It’s past peak oil 
Haven’t found much more in a very long time (1969)
And we use a lot of it 
Dot dot dot 
Fracking
Yagh 

The part where BIPOC communities are more likely to live around pollution than white people 
(enter years of further of education) 
Remember redlining? 
*systemic racism*

“We’re at the 8th whitest school in the country”

Cradle to Cradle 
Corporations are more powerful than nation states (!)
Could this possibly be a positive? 

….

76 people have more money than the poorest 3.5 billion (2016) 
And oh yes climate change 

The excess of one for
The subjugation of everyone 
Else 
& “Externalities”  
Why, all of this is a process of that 

….

Sometimes 
I walked away
So rocked 
I’d feel 
the structure of 
my thoughts 
fall apart 
tripping 

*infinity overflows the thought that thinks it*

The way the clouds 
waved around 
those sunny days
Bicycle Day 

Standing there 
he’d cross his arms, 
he’d stare 

big black letters 
“must not sleep, 
must warn others” 



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Readings from class: 

The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton  
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson 
The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold 
Animal Liberation, Peter Singer
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered, Bill Devall & George Sessions
We Have Always Been Post Anthropocene, Claire Colebrook
The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism, Karen J. Warren
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development, Vandana Shiva
Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx 
On the Definition of Political Economy, John Stuart Mill 
Food Inc. (documentary)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Swine of the Times, Nathanael Johnson 
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear, Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele 
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, Marq de Villiers 
Climbing Hubbert’s Peak: The Looming World Oil Crisis, Charles H. Eccleston
Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States, Charles Lee 
Cradle to Cradle, Michael Braungart & William McDonough