“The injunction to act now is based on preserving a Nature that never existed: this has real effects that may result in more powerful catastrophe as we tilt at non-existent windmills. I'm not saying let's not look after animals because they're not really natural. I'm trying to find a reason to look after all beings precisely because they're not natural.” (Timothy)

In his article, Don't Just Do Something, Sit There! Global Warming and Ideology, Timothy Morton turns our perceptions of what nature, environment and being human are up side down and suggests the concepts of the ‘strange stranger’ and ‘dark ecology’ in which we can’t separate humans from other species, nature from culture, or ecology from action. Everything is coexistence, interconnected, and intersubjective, which blows the foundation on which our capitalistic and liberal society is build.

Because the old perception of nature as something outside of us is being shuttered by climate change -– because nature an ecology are much more complex and much more intimate dimensions, we cant just ‘do something’ but we have to ‘sit there’ and think about what we want to do first. “Dark ecology is a paradoxical aesthetic that slips from our conceptual grasp. This openness serves as startup software for politics: it doesn't tell you what to do, but it opens your mind so you can think clearly about what to do.” (Timothy).

In the case of Timothy’s article I will avoid opening up further questions. Instead I will promise you, that the text will leave you with plenty of question, which I hope you will share and discuss here at the blog, in order to reach a more complex understand of the problematics concerning climate change and what we can actually do about it.

“Ecological thinking should not stop forging ahead, thinking unthinkable things and demanding the impossible. It must hold open the possibility of a future radically different from the reality we appear to be stuck in.” (Timothy)