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Very nice info graphic.

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“… social change, personal change, inner change, outer change are intimately related and they happen in tandem.” — Charles Eisenstein

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I don't even want to talk to anyone about plastics and the lies about their recycling. The evidence of constantly manufactured and recycled lies are all around us - on the roads, in the open fields, in the forests, in the rivers, in the seas, and now even in our blood streams.

I cringe inside, when friends, good people, knowledgeable people argue about the inevitability of using plastics or argue that plastics are recycled or can be recycled and that it's just a matter of doing better, or just a matter of some technological breakthrough, etc.,

I find myself at loss of words for all that's naked and glaringly visible everywhere.

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“It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.” —  a Native American proverb

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“Everything we know is partly ours and partly not ours”

— Ian McGilchrist, The Matter With Things

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“The world we experience – which is the only one we can know – is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.”

— Ian McGilchrist, The Matter With Things

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In a moving passage in her magnificent 1705 Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) recorded how the Indian and African slave populations in Surinam, then a Dutch colony, used the seeds of a plant she identified as the flos pavonis, literally “peacock flower”, as an abortifacient: “The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds [of this plant] to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves. The black slaves from Guinea and Angola have demanded to be well treated, threatening to refuse to have children. …They told me this themselves.”

Londa Schiebinger in The Lancet. Exotic abortifacients and lost knowledge

I came to read this article becasue danah boyd introduced me to agnotology, a field of study I had not heard of before. Londa Schiebinger is an important scholar. Here is a list of her books and edited volumes.

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“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“The hole in the bagel defines the torus. When the bagel is eaten, the hole does not remain to be reincarnated in a doughnut.”

—Gregory Bateson, Angel's Fear

My latest New Scientist cartoon