Environment Science Society T.A.I.R.I.D
The Recursive Climate Problem
As our linear models fail, recursion offers hope. — Kenny Mathews
I have recently begun to consider the future, which is a novelty for me, because I never really thought I had one. This is how they get us. They convince us that there is no future. There is only the eternal now and the best that we can do is to survive until dawn and then do it all again. That is no way to live. And I discovered, to some surprise, that I am interested in living. I am interested in building a way to live. I will build something new on all these old bones. Something where people can live for a future. I am going to live. And I think, I will start here.
Isaac
As our linear models fail, recursion offers hope. — Kenny Mathews
You must gain balance within yourself before you can bring balance to the world. — Guru Pathik
We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth. — Lilith
"We made every living thing from water." (Qur’an 21:30)
The noise of mankind has become too much for me, I am losing sleep because of their uproar. — Atrahasis Epic (Tablet I, Akkadian flood myth)
To make justice visible in the land, to destroy the wicked and evil, so that the strong might not oppress the weak. — Prologue to Hammurabi’s Code
Hell is other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. — Rumi
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. ― Antonio Gramsci
Most people don’t begin their relational journeys trying to dismantle the systems they were raised to believe in. — Kenny Mathews
If objective accuracy threatens understanding than that understanding needs to change. — Kenny Mathews
We’ve been told to think of efficiency as a virtue, but efficiency without empathy is just cruelty optimized. — Kenny Mathews
The theft of hours is the theft of life itself- the finite span of your existence carved up and sold back to you.
Autism, ADHD, and so many more neurodivergent traits are the lawful variation of cognitive architecture. — Kenny Mathews
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. — Angela Y. Davis
Never be cruel, never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish, love is always kind. Laugh hard, run fast, be kind.
The psilocybin experience can help us access parts of ourselves that are normally hidden from view. — Paul Stamets
They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. — Dinos Christianopoulos
The library is a model of the universe. — Umberto Eco
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. — Albert Einstein
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. — Rumi
How people unify: in the face of a common enemy and a shared purpose.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi
If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light. — Rumi
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. — Alfred Adler
The empire built a machine that feeds on fear, demands obedience, and brands annihilation as deliverance.
The apocalypse is not an external judgment but an internal revelation—a chance to face the shadows we’ve long denied and to choose between division or unity.
There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. — Gilles Deleuze
"Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked." (Genesis 3:7)
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. — Charles Chaplin
The image of the earth as a nurturing mother was transformed into a mindless, dead mechanism to be exploited for human gain.
Repressed desires don´t disappear - the resurface in distorted form and turn against us.
The Fight Against Fascism: An Internal and External Struggle, requiring self-awareness, courage, and collective solidarity
Fascism, the true enemy within, exploits unconscious desires and the ego’s need for superiority.
The major enemy is the fascism in our heads, in our everyday behavior—the desire for power, to love the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. — Gilles Deleuze
People can only meet each other as deeply as they have met themselves.
You believe God looks at us from above but God actually sees us from the inside. God is within us, and yet God also looks at us from beyond.
You believe God looks at us from within but God actually sees us from beyond.
You believe God looks at us from above but God actually sees us from the inside.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. — Rumi
You have to understand, most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
The capitalist machine captures flows of desire and channels them into circuits of production and consumption, commodifying even the most personal aspects of life.
People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another. — Rumi
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your ego. — Rumi