“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Death March

1. If this were happening in any other country we'd be calling it genocide and ordering air strikes, UN peacekeepers and trials at the Hague.

2. This is so beautifully made. Wordsworth couldn't have done better than the quiet, intelligent, strong, loving, deeply involved, walking narrator.

3. The Weather Channel. Wow. The best documentary I've seen in ages and it's from the Weather Channel. But then again, weather doesn't know about boundaries between states, as global warming language keeps saying. And this is a case of using the weather as a political tool: weaponized weather. It's perfect that this is from them.


4 comments:

Laura Barbas-Rhoden said...

Timothy, thanks for sharing. There is an environmental crisis in Central America behind the border crisis. I give a snapshot of that wicked problem in a recent blog post: http://lbarbasrhoden.blogspot.com/2014/06/environmental-crisis-humanitarian-crisis.html

Laura Barbas-Rhoden said...

Timothy, thanks for sharing. There is an environmental crisis in Central America behind the border crisis. I give a snapshot of that wicked problem in a recent blog post: http://lbarbasrhoden.blogspot.com/2014/06/environmental-crisis-humanitarian-crisis.html

Erin Finzer said...

Laura, I thought of you immediately when I saw this post and then saw that you had commented! I recommend your blog post to anyone intrigued by this video.

Erin Finzer said...

As a follow-up to this post, I recommend this article: http://fusion.net/justice/story/central-americas-drought-hasten-emigration-us-949311