Environment Science Society T.A.I.R.I.D
The Recursive Climate Problem
As our linear models fail, recursion offers hope. — Kenny Mathews
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)