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Ecology

How living things fit together, and what happens when a piece is removed.

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Environmental movement

The environmental movement is the international social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful practices and build sustainable living.
8:39

Deep ecology

It treats ecosystems as legal persons—but gives no way to adjudicate between them.
9:26

Degrowth

Degrowth names the problem—GDP obsession—but refuses to solve it within capitalism.
9:47

Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism names a real link—but mistakes a 1974 label for a 1973 movement.
8:58

Land art

Land art refuses the gallery—but needs it to be seen.
7:32

Posthumanism

Posthumanism names the crisis of human exceptionalism—but refuses to say what comes after the human.
9:15

Tragedy of the commons

Hardin’s 1968 essay didn’t discover a truth — it weaponised a pastoral metaphor to justify control.
8:14

Simple living

Simple living is not minimalism—it’s a political act disguised as self-help.