What If We're Still Inside the Paradigm We're Trying to Escape?
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here Part Two into a deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “The Mirror Cracks: Donald Trump and the American Psyche.”
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Show Notes
Continuing oue deep dive into the work of Richard David Hames, using his essay "The Mirror Cracks: Donald Trump and the American Psyche” as a lens to examine the foundational patterns driving both climate crisis and the broader malaise of modern capitalism, the episodes looks at the final three of Richard's six insights.
-The Epistemological Break
-The Civilization Crisis
-Nature as a Resource
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Key Takeaways for Leaders:
Are we defending comfortable but flawed realities in our sustainability efforts?
How can we shift from treating nature as a resource to honoring it as a living system?
Recognize that climate action, democracy, and economic systems are deeply interconnected.
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