Don't forget the Looters! Bill McKibben: Name Storms After Oil Companies (The Ones Most Responsible for Climate Change) http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/30-12
/:b On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Timothy Morton wrote: > Hi all, > > In answer to Cynthia, there are lots of reasons. During > Katrina some people stayed to look after their pets, for > instance. > > But in general, humans seem reluctant to admit the scope > of the nonhuman forces they have unleashed since the late > eighteenth century. > > I'd go not with facing down demons, but more in the > direction of hunkering down in a minimal world, since > world as such does not exist--evaporating since 1780 ish, > as Sandy only underlines that fact. _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre