I have imprinted on my mind something Cobb said to me when I was a student, on a walk, here–35 years ago,: “what we need is enough ecological catastrophe that people wake up, and not so much that it is too late.” Still true? Catastrophe can be a catalyst.

This century is still far away from being a Whiteheadian century. But it’s going in the right direction.

“Loho communities” are ones that aim for wholistic harmony with the rest of the natural world.

One of the strengths of Whiteheadian-Hartshornean process thought is that it leads people to care deeply about the long-term good of the world, regardless of whether they will be part of it.

“When Corporations Rule the World” is a powerful book title from the ’90s which I can’t help but reference when I read about much that is happening.

Thinking wrong can change the world. — John Bielenberg

Dowd writes, “When religion fails, economics is unbounded by even the crudest requirements to protect nature’s life support systems. When religion fails, economics becomes demonic.”

My point is that even if the solution to the problem of global warming lies at hand, it cannot easily be seized. Our family lives, our educational system, and our religious teaching would have to change too.

While the influence of linear perspective on Renaissance architecture and European cities is well understood and obvious, its influence on Western science and how we see ourselves in relationship to the natural world is less known but deep.

Providing more services to an increasing population can only be met if those with enough voluntarily decide to give what they really don’t need to support the many who have too little.

The Earth is typically thought of as nothing but stuff — an idea so commonplace that it’s hard to imagine it having any kind of history at all. It’s “just the way the world is.”

The very act of being creative is a kind of defiance of the dominant, deterministic model that shapes the university and so much of the world.