Can we, collectively, act in accordance with the planet’s enormous rhythms and not just the greedy patterns of consumer culture? Why do I find the image of marine snow so compelling, so incantatory? Life lived, life spent — life tumbling forever into sunless depths. And yet, over the course of vast eons, it becomes also extraordinary — because the possibility of our entire consumer culture is the result. Neither do I mean that millennial angst about RRSPs and bankrupt social security nets is likely to upend a consumer culture centuries in the making.

Source: thestar December 25, 2021 01:00 UTC