A life in service of the living Earth
A special issue of The Ecologist on Herbert Girardet, cultural ecologist and co-founder of the World Future Council, who spent decades arguing that economies built on escalating resource use cannot coexist with the planet's limits.
open the piece at theecologist.org →"A life in service of the living Earth", by Monica Piccinini, The Ecologist Special Series: Megamorphosis, published 2026-08-01, edited by Brendan Montague, ten pages, Creative Commons 4.0. Read today from the PDF.
From its abstract: "Too often, these crises are treated as separate emergencies rather than connected expressions of the same ecological and economic imbalance."
Why it is here: Anselm's pick as an example of the writing the desk wants beside its models. Reading cards link out; they are not models, and the status "live" means the link works and the piece was read.