I’m so glad I paged back to read Hine’s thoughts and your processing of same. I experience you as a source for right thinking. Quite difficult to encounter on most social media. Thanks, Samantha
I’m glad you re-posted this Dougald Hine article too. I’ve lost all ideologies and faiths now. All the big one way and no others that got us here. And can’t even think these days without walking. But once I do walk all the imponderables unravel into separate threads and small possibilities that, yes, might just add up. And certainly save me, time after time, from ever despairing.
Yes I find even a short walk can be a great dissolver of stuck things, always presenting encounters that remind me that life ufolds in a web of connectedness, even if I don't see that all the time.
Thank you for such eloquence on both books. I am part way through The Mushroom at the End of the World and read Dougalh' s book first. Then I read Kim Stanley Robinson's Cli-fi The Ministry for the Future. It was set in 2025, um, now, and published in 2022. Not all doom and gloom, but certainly explores pathways at world wide levels addressing failing systems that can no longer be ignored while climate change catastrophic events continue across areas of earth. Your thoughts plague so many of us and the Matsutake mushroom underground systems is an amazing analogy as much as it is real.
I’m so glad I paged back to read Hine’s thoughts and your processing of same. I experience you as a source for right thinking. Quite difficult to encounter on most social media. Thanks, Samantha
I’m glad you re-posted this Dougald Hine article too. I’ve lost all ideologies and faiths now. All the big one way and no others that got us here. And can’t even think these days without walking. But once I do walk all the imponderables unravel into separate threads and small possibilities that, yes, might just add up. And certainly save me, time after time, from ever despairing.
Yes I find even a short walk can be a great dissolver of stuck things, always presenting encounters that remind me that life ufolds in a web of connectedness, even if I don't see that all the time.
Honest, humane and vital writing for our times. 💙
He's doing some great work too, engaging with people and building community.
Thank you for such eloquence on both books. I am part way through The Mushroom at the End of the World and read Dougalh' s book first. Then I read Kim Stanley Robinson's Cli-fi The Ministry for the Future. It was set in 2025, um, now, and published in 2022. Not all doom and gloom, but certainly explores pathways at world wide levels addressing failing systems that can no longer be ignored while climate change catastrophic events continue across areas of earth. Your thoughts plague so many of us and the Matsutake mushroom underground systems is an amazing analogy as much as it is real.
Thanks for the Kim Stanley Robinson suggestion Cathie - not one I’d heard of but sounds well worth a read.