## Metadata - Author: [[Charles Eisenstein]] - Full Title: Climate--a New Story - Category: #books ## Highlights - From the causal logic of interbeing—morphic resonance—it is easy to understand how a society that exploits and abuses its most vulnerable will also exploit and abuse nature. To take care of vulnerable people generates a field of care that facilitates care for other vulnerable beings. A caring society is one that is habituated to asking, “Who is being left out? Who is suffering? Who is unrecognized in their gifts? Whose needs are not being met?” These are the questions that must guide an ecological society as well as a just society. ([Location 899](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075HY5TN8&location=899)) - the original feminist and racial justice radicals had a bigger vision than winning equality in the existing system. The feminists didn’t want just to have equal status in the patriarchy; they wanted to transform the whole system. Civil rights leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t just want African American men to be treated equally in the United States military; they wanted to end militarism and imperialism altogether. But today, a neutered mainstream version of both civil rights and feminism settles for an anodyne ideal of equality, shifting the occupants of our power structures around but leaving the structures themselves intact. ([Location 916](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075HY5TN8&location=916)) - In ecology, which is the study of relationships and not things, every cause is also a symptom. ([Location 1041](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075HY5TN8&location=1041)) - Our intellectual habit is to find the One Cause, our scientific programming is to measure it, and our political gearing is to attack it. When the One Cause is global, we cross our fingers and hand over responsibility and power to distant global institutions. They’ll take care of it. We hope. But too often, blaming climate change means not doing anything at all. ([Location 1058](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075HY5TN8&location=1058))