The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

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The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

The most radical thing you can do is stay home.

- Gary Snyder -

The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

"Long ago the poet and bioregionalist Gary Snyder said, The most radical thing you can do is stay home, a phrase that has itself stayed with me for the many years since I first heard it. Some or all of its meaning was present then, in the bioregional 1970s, when going back to the land and consuming less was how the task was framed. The task has only become more urgent as climate change in particular underscores that we need to consume a lot less. Its curious, in the chaos of conversations about what we ought to do to save the world, how seldom sheer modesty comes up living smaller, staying closer, having less especially for us in the ranks of the privileged. Not just having a fuel-efficient car, but maybe leaving it parked and taking the bus, or living a lot closer to work in the first place, or not having a car at all. A third of carbon-dioxide emissions nationwide are from the restless movements of goods and people." Rebecca Solnit shares more in this thoughtful essay. { read more }

Be The Change

For more from Solnit, check out this essay on Slowness as an Act of Resistance. { more }


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