Corporate appeals to natural self-healing license reckless short-term environmental damage

Evidence

Natural agency can indeed take unexpected, sometimes heartening forms, but we should be alert to the ways corporate colossi and governments can hijack that logic to grant themselves advance or retrospective absolution. Crucially, for my arguments about slow violence, the time frames of damage assessment and potential recovery are wildly out of sync. The deep-time thinking that celebrates natural healing is strategically disastrous if it provides political cover for reckless corporate short-termism. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 65

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the slow-violence/intervisibility thread; pairs with the Deepwater passage showing concretely how ‘nature will heal’ rhetoric was conscripted for liability avoidance.
• XREF: connects to: Fantasies of restoration license risky change by mitigating its threat — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2032

Broader Connections

• Fantasies of restoration license risky change by mitigating its threat #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2032