Nature is a dirty bitch of a mother

00:09:48 — Nature is a dirty bitch of a mother

Žižek dismisses deep ecology’s ideal of returning to natural harmony. Nature, far from being a homeostatic mother in balance, produced the geological catastrophes that buried the biomass we now burn as oil and coal. Framing climate action on a fantasy of pristine equilibrium is the wrong starting point; nature itself is imbalanced, violent and indifferent, and any serious ecological politics has to begin there.