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Kinship, Community, and Consciousness – a conversation with Richard Powers

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Overstory of the Environmental Crisis

We have to escape the life of commodity and replace it with the life of community, he says. What's going to be required is a conversion of consciousness: "I call it plant consciousness" We got this incredible principle inheritance in the form of petrochemicals, which are legacy of 400 million years of plant life. And like any kid who gets an inheritance and squanders it, we're now coming to a reckoning.

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