Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival is a weirdly peaceful documentary, given the subject is our own demise. COURTESY OF ICARUS FILMS
The world as we know it is in rapid decline.
The cause of this decline is without question a mode of human/cultural metabolism that has, unfortunately, unlimited growth as its only condition of existence. This cultural form (the political economy known as capitalism) has resulted in a “metabolic rift.”
Put another way: The historically specific mode of wealth generation that has dominated human life since its emergence in 17th-century Europe is, it turns out, totally alien from its very own planet. The wealth generation is infinite; the planet is rudely limited. The rift between the two is not only growing but closing down an old and roughly 12,000-year-old global system of life—and evidently opening a new, pretty much unknown one.
