collective unconscious & future of urban water systems
Photo Credit: a/d/o Water Futures
The future, “as we know it,” is disappearing, and yet this future is simultaneously what the present is hedged against. The always-looming threat of extinction is growing stronger and more intense, and not the just extinction of us humans or our communities, but life, organic and inorganic, as well. Visions of environmental a financial catastrophe loom large on a shattering horizon. The current “critical” climate change propels everything into a state of emergency that cognitively both erases and conflates the present and its pendant, the future. Peter J. Amdam (2015)
I’ve been reading Carl Jung’s Dreams these days.. One part I find particularly interesting is his comparison of the ocean to our collective unconscious.. This powerful and murky territory is a resource our society preys on and poisons every day.
UN World Water Development Reported by 2025 1.8 billion people will be living in countries with absolute water scarcity … Dividing our environment = Dividing ourselves.
Resources I find interesting:
Ooze Architecture ~ Water as Leverage
I am so inspired by their commitment to putting water systems / infrastructure in the public eye.. it’s so easy to neglect and take for granted the systems we depend on. In the public eye there would be no way to deny how urgent innovation and change is.
Kat Austen ~ The Matter of the Soul & Coral Empathy
I think Austen’s work is particularly powerful in rebuilding our relationship with our environment. I heard her talk about creating ecosystems of love and make music with water she had collected from different parts of the world. I think we are so comfortable harming our earth because we have become so detached from it. Starting from our urban fabric we need to begin synthesizing and treating the earth as our body and vital part of our conscious and subconscious.
https://t.co/mFC3SfhoUu
’That dystopian future of shuttered farms, dried up streams and water-stressed cities is one water managers, like the Upper Colorado River Commission's James Eklund, are attempting to avoid.’
"I think a lot of people who care about wildlife in this region are concerned," she says. "And it's not just birds. Seventy percent of all wildlife in the arid West rely on rivers at some point in their life cycle. So it has outsized importance for anyone who appreciates nature in this part of the country."