Rebecca Solnit

Gazeteci, köşe yazarı Rebecca Solnit ve yazar, doğa bilimci, aktivist Terry Tempest Williams'ın The Guardian'da yayımlanan yazısını paylaşıyoruz.

Gigantic, powerful, undead beings, corporations have been given ever more human rights over the past 125 years; they act on their own behalf, not mine or yours or humanity's or, really, carbon-based life on Earth's.

Soon after almost every disaster the crimes begin: ruthless, selfish, indifferent to human suffering, and generating far more suffering. The perpetrators go unpunished and live to commit further crimes against humanity. They care less for human life than for property.

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You can argue against Barack Obama. I would myself, on the grounds that electoral politics are inherently flawed, corrosive, disempowering. My leftist friends, already cranky about him, warn me that I will be disappointed, but I'm not sure I will, because my expectations are realistic.

While many of the big stories in 2006 were bad news, there were hundreds of activist successes in 2006 that permanently changed the world.

U.S. public opinion has almost caught up with the rest of the world in opposing the war, but Iraqis are still being bombed and American soldiers are still dying.

At stake in stories of disaster is what version of human nature we will accept, and at stake in that choice is how will we govern, and how we will cope with future disasters.

Solnit, G8 Zirvesi'nde ele alınan, fakir ülkelerin borçlarının silinmesi konusundan yola çıkarak herhangi başarı ya da zaferi nasıl tartacağımız sorusuna cevap arıyor: "Hiçbir şey siyah ya da beyaz değil, sadece daha iyi bir dünya projesine devam etmek için iyi bir sebep."