Our existence is all about us, Right? Are you a human supremacist?
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Mike Sliwa is a husband and homesteader. He taught high school for 12 years and left his career for a simpler existence. Currently he and his wife are living off grid, perfecting their durable living skills in rural New Mexico. Mike speaks about a wide variety issues concerning simple living, white privilege, abrupt climate change, Near Term Human Extinction, and other consequences of the civilized industrial global economy. He is a co-founder of the social justice speaking agency truality.org. Mike is the author of Chasing a Different Carrot, A Manifesto for the Predicament of Privilege. You can find more information at michaelsliwa.wordpress.com.
mike, since you know the implications of a meat-based diet on the planet, how do you continue to justify eating meat?
The same way you justify using a computer, driving in a car, flying in a plane, or using electricity.
I am a black man. I am gay. I am vegan. I am not a human supremacist. I am vehemently against the dominant culture, but it’s impossible to take your anti civilization rhetoric seriously when you admit to being a blatant speciesist. Disconnect is all the same, whether it’s human supremacy, white supremacy, patriarchy, racism, xenophobia, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ecocide or the sickening slaughter of trillions of mammals, birds and fish every single year. Your finger-pointing, sarcastic and demeaning response to Amy is immature and ignorant. As the saying goes, “When you point your finger at someone, anyone, in… Read more »
Nice.
Manfred, wow! Excellent response. I agree with everything you wrote. https://endhumansupremacy.wordpress.com/
That species of which you speak was the indigenous cultures of the world, which have mostly been obliterated by genocide. They were here, and now they are (mostly) gone. The current dominant culture will not morph into that of which you speak; we have created our own destruction.
I never said we would “morph”…we are in a predicament and as they say, that is all she wrote.
If I might add to your writing about something so somber as our own demise, since our social group has difficulty living sustainably. To put a light at the end of the tunnel. Also put in solutions to the different problems to give people hope to move forward. Also to add in the possible dominance role to the role of tending the garden for centuries and millennia living in balance with the climate rather than trying to dominate it. We may be top dog on earth, but we also have limits to what a good life can be as humanity.… Read more »
There is no light at the end of the tunnel. I’m certainly not going to create one because that would simply add to our culture of make believe in my estimation.
The label or semantics are largely unimportant. So, taking for granted then that we are, by subjective criteria, ‘superior’ – how then do we acquit ourselves as such? How do we exercise that ‘superiority’ and power in a manner befitting & justifying it? What are we to do with ourselves that would merit a kind eye from posterity, so as to say: ‘There was a superior species that comported itself wisely & well – There was a species that warranted its superiority, and utilized that superior primacy & potency judiciously. There was a species which was conscientious; one which… Read more »
“My name is ( Kevin Hester) and I’m a human supremacist.”
At the risk of sounding like I am making excuses for myself I was born a junkie to parents who were fossil fuel junkies in a society of fossil fuel junkies.
As my mate Professor Guy McPherson says ” Industrial civilisation is a heat machine and we are stuck in a monkey trap”.
I have a solar powered house yet it wreaks of fossil fuels.
I live at the ” Hotel California” on Rakino Island, you can check out but you can never leave.
Believing that we have the technological prowess and mastery over our environment to avert or survive a mass extinction (self-engineered or otherwise) is its own sort of hubris. There was a report the other year estimating that even if we all dropped dead today, it would take several millennia for all of the plastic microdebris in the oceans to fully biodegrade. Not that we shouldn’t try to right what wrongs we can, and make better decisions with a longer view. Truth is, between climate change, decreasing biodiversity, the extreme reduction in genetic diversity in megafauna, environmental pollution, poaching of endangered… Read more »