On the ZADist Path: Living Earth on Depleted LandFrancis Schoups

"It is an open, dissipative system that feeds on its environment on an exponentially rising scale through the commodification of production – demanding a continual increase in the use of energy and of materials and dumping ever more wastes into the environment.”
John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett

“This is because now people no longer feel responsible for their waste. What is declared waste, and where it is dumped are not their concern. Their only worry is to get rid of the undesired physical remnants of the processes of the production of life.”

Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

“If people begin to feel responsible for the leftovers or waste products of their life processes again – and this can be done only as a community – the patterns not only of the consumption but also of their production will have to change. In industrialised societies the reinvention of the commons could start with communities taking responsibility for their waste within their own region.”
Maria Mies and Veronika Benholdt-Thomsen

“Using these understandings of how nature catches and stores energy, we can rebuild the natural capital in managed landscapes so that they can provide for future human needs as well as essential environmental services."
David Holmgren