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The aim is to confront personal challenges in responding to the climate emergency and societal violence rooted in capitalist culture.

January 20, 2026Open Access

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A meditation over a capitalist ego in the face of climate emergency. A provocation

CSCarl Anders Säfström

Key Points

The aim is to confront personal challenges in responding to the climate emergency and societal violence rooted in capitalist culture.
Exploration of personal reflections and cultural critiques.
Engagement with concepts of eco-violence and gender-based issues.
Critical analysis of perfectionism within Western capitalism.
Increased awareness of personal inaction regarding planetary crises.
Philosophical insights on the need to embrace life's complexities.
Emergence of a call for collective struggles against eco and gender-based violence.

Abstract

In this meditation, I will challenge my own inability to take in and act on the seriousness of the situation of today’s world: Its planetary crises affecting all life. I do so by addressing the violence and domination inscribed in me through being schooled in the western capitalist culture in which I live. A culture in which perfection is the end goal of everything. I challenge this ego of perfection, by embracing the un-harmonizable plant-ness of life and joining the joint struggles against eco-based as well as gender-based violence.

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Carl Anders Säfström (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/696f1a849e64f732b51eebdd https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/00345237261417112

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