![]() To add to our knowledge of the grim reality of Climate Change and resource depletion, our recent scientific studies of ice cores show us that drastic climate change can happen swiftly, in a decade or two, or less. We have become addicted and mesmerized by our systems of consumerism and technology, and we conceive of the Earth as a commodity provider and background for humans. We have reached and gone beyond the limits of the planetary ecosystem. What started as our struggle for survival against scarcity and Nature, has led to a global civilization that has itself become a destructive planetary force. It is a portrait of someone who has reconnected to her evolutionary roots and therefore takes her place within Earth’s planetary system as ‘that part of the Earth which is conscious of itself, and which thinks, paints etc.’įrom this viewpoint, let us look at the crisis or collision course between our global civilization and ecological reality. I illustrate this article with my painting ‘The Ecological Self’, which is both an image of Earth from space, as well as a human form. ![]() ![]() My focus for the last twenty five years as a painter and thinker has been on developing an ecological perspective as to the nature of Earth and our relationship with Earth. To describe this world appropriately we need an ecological perspective which the Cartesian world view does not offer.” He wrote, “We live today in an interconnected world in which biological, psychological, social and environmental phenomena are all interdependent. ![]()
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