No Light Ecology searches for the darkness in our light filled efforts to save the world’s ecology. One of the key points is sacrifice. Solutions to climate change, and the biodiversity crisis, are not always in keeping with our modern expectations of cleanliness. Some of the kindest products are in fact a bit icky!
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NO LIGHT Ecology: Climate Change in a World of Opposites
In a way, we cannot expect everyone to understand climate change. 100% of people believing the same thing is impossible, our spiritual climate forbids it. The philosophy of yin and yang is such that as soon as soon as one group of people believe one thing, another will believe another.
NO LIGHT Ecology: A Load of Rubbish
I once stayed in a spiritual community in India. There were no rubbish bins there. Every littlepiece of rubbish was reused or recycled. The sheer challenge of discarding anything meant that you were much more careful about what you consumed. Nobody used plastic carrier bags. Kitchen waste was composted. Recyclables were separated. There was a culture of preserving the land, and protecting it from human destruction.
NO LIGHT Ecology: Challenging Industrialisation
In the nineteenth century, a movement arose that would cause more revolutions than any other ideology in history: communism. Capitalism, its antithesis, had been brewing for some millennia, but with the advent of industrial solutions, the downsides of capitalism such as environmental destruction, and inequality, spiralled out of control.
NO LIGHT Ecology: The Darkness of Ecocentrism
No Light Ecology attempts to contextualise the greening process; if we do not take account of the darkness inherent in the light, we risk creating an imbalance. People are often repelled by ‘goodness’. Naturally weary of do gooding, the mainstream masses can resist even the most sensible policies.
NO LIGHT Ecology: Tech and the Shadow Side
When a new technology comes to the market there are often outcries about the harm to society that it will wreck. Take AI, the number of jobs that it threatens could cause a global recession. Social media is causing a breakdown in child psychology. If / when AI becomes conscious we’re not ready to manage the unforeseen consequences.
NO LIGHT Ecology: An Introduction
According to the philosophy of yin and yang, whenever we do something, good or bad, it has an equal and opposite reaction. Ecologial behaviour has a good feel about it. Does that mean it will cause some evil later on down the road?
