What is an artist without his or her canvas? In Four Classic Quarterly Essays, Amanda Lohrey reminds us that We termed the earliest environmental boards 'Scenery' boards. We are the philosopher Bradley's Idealist we and "them", the product and catalyst of socialization and progress. Is progress, however, the Progress of annihilation?
I leave you with Lohrey's distillation of the sustainable into the politics of change:
'The story of Lake Pedder has been told before and is well known to anyone over forty. Nevertheless it is worth revisiting here, not least because if there is a foundational narrative of the Greens Party in Australia it is the flooding of Lake Pedder by the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission in 1972. The story of Lake Pedder and its erasure are to the Greens what the great shearers' strike and the town Barcaldine in the 1890s were to the Australian Labour Party. This is the Greens' own Genesis story and Pedder is it's paradise lost'.
There is much - too much - to preoccupy us. The world as friend or the world as foe?
Perhaps we should view things less 'in terrorem' and more 'in arcadia'?
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