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Graphs of economic growth are deeply political. They simplify and exclude a more troubling and complex reality. Apart from a few hiccups we’ve been moving upwards over the past hundred years. Moving up to no idea where. When seen against another graph, but this time that of species which have gone extinct in the same period, one realizes that this kind of progress can only be celebrated as a victory in isolation. (source: University of Idaho)

The Māori tribes in New Zealand do not consider themselves masters of the universe but part of it. They fought a 140 year-long legal battle to grant the Whanganui River the same legal rights as a human being. They finally won the case in 2017 meaning that it would be treated as a living entity, as an indivisible whole, instead of treating it from the perspective of ownership and management. That perspective is not an anti-development, or anti-economic use of the river but one that begins with the view that a river is a living being, and then consider its future from that central belief. (wickimedia commons)

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