A meditation on the linguistic reality of plants. 

Surveillance capitalism and the market for human futures

Nouriel Roubini is the economist famed as ‘Dr. Doom’ for predicting the 2007-8 housing crash. His book Megathreats issues a stark warning about the future.

The debate over voicelessness in international environmental law centers on a profound moral question: how to ensure justice by defining and upholding responsibilities toward those - human and non-human - impacted by environmental decisions but unable to advocate for themselves.

Granting legal standing to trees - or nature more broadly - would be revolutionary. It would shift the legal paradigm from viewing the environment as property to recognising it as a rights-bearing entity. But how feasible is it?

How does our relationship with trees affect us?

How do carbon markets influence our relationship with the atmosphere?

Is climate change a phenomenon beyond our control?

How does our preoccupation with the present inhibit effective action to mitigate damage to the environment?

How did the planet become subservient to human needs?