Climate catastrophe will destroy what we love before it ends extractive economies

Evidence

Some folks argue that we need do nothing at all—that the unholy coupling of greed and growth and carbon will make the world hot enough to melt the Windigo heart once and for all. Climate change will unequivocally defeat economies that are based on constant taking without giving in return. But before the Windigo dies, it will take so much that we love along with it. We can wait for climate change to turn the world and the Windigo into a puddle of red-tinged meltwater, or we can strap on our snowshoes and track him down. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1388

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Accelerating climate destruction may be crueler than hastening humanity’s end — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1976; Loving ecological relationships can be destroyed while their material systems persist — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 895; Climate catastrophe demands constructing a collective subject that does not yet exist — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 139

Broader Connections

• Climate catastrophe demands constructing a collective subject that does not yet exist #responds-to (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 139
• Loving ecological relationships can be destroyed while their material systems persist #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 895
• Accelerating climate destruction may be crueler than hastening humanity’s end #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1976