“Forests, the oceans, the unpoisoned earth, human children, health care, and social infrastructure … the basis of life on earth — these now compete directly with things like cars, cell-phones, war machines, »photographs, bitcoin mining boxes, and video games.

They are competing for survival. For human attention. For protection.

For a future.

And they are losing. More, each day.

And when they lose, what is lost with their lives or existence is our humanity and our hope of development. Believe me when I tell you that a part of us goes with them, forever.

There are costs we are not accounting, and they are most of what is important about our terrifying relationships with both representational thought and object technologies.”

— an anonymous informant∞