Margaret Snowdon
I acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians of the land I work, live, play and travel on. I honour all elders past and present.
“The present state of human, and particularly Western, industrial civilisation, creates problems concerning not only the exploitation of one social class by another or of a poor country by a wealthy one, but also the exploitation of the human species and the space in which it lives. Deciding what is to be done is no longer simply a question of defining the right salary for a certain job, nor knowing how much to help the less industrialised nations to develop, nor even of how to create jobs to absorb unemployment. It is much more a case of reorganising the way humanity lives and produces with a view to preserving the planet, and human life and culture.”
Luce Irigaray, French philosopher Womankind Magazine, Issue#21, page 85
“It is not unusual that when individuals become tired, anxious and depressed they may try to fix the problem quickly in order to return to business as usual rather than pausing to reconsider the underlying cause of the dis-ease or the consequences for the living Earth. This is a narrative of falling out of harmony with the interconnected web of life, and it perpetuates stories and histories of power and ego, conquest and domination, exploitation and consumption.”