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 ==== The Risk of Gaia  ==== ==== The Risk of Gaia  ====
  
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 We are obliged to respond to the fact that life on Earth is threatened without there ever being an adequate response to this threat. But what we must also come to appreciate is that with every response, with every struggle, with every apparatus for learning and sharing assembled, the conditions for future struggle change; they undergo transformation. In other words, the problematic field doesn’t go away, but it generates new conditions for learning and responding. We are obliged to respond to the fact that life on Earth is threatened without there ever being an adequate response to this threat. But what we must also come to appreciate is that with every response, with every struggle, with every apparatus for learning and sharing assembled, the conditions for future struggle change; they undergo transformation. In other words, the problematic field doesn’t go away, but it generates new conditions for learning and responding.
  
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 Learning from problems, instead of knowing solutions, requires a transformation on our behalf. Learning from problems, instead of knowing solutions, requires a transformation on our behalf.
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 Gaia is a proposition that reorients our thinking about the Earth: it is a problem we must learn from and not solve; anything short of this destines us for barbarism. Gaia is a proposition that reorients our thinking about the Earth: it is a problem we must learn from and not solve; anything short of this destines us for barbarism.
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 Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[aesthetic naturalism]]. Next: [[admiration and care]] Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[aesthetic naturalism]]. Next: [[admiration and care]]
  
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