The Gift of Degrowth: Why the demographic drop is Earth’s only hope.
While the Governments of Seoul and Rome sound the alarm over empty cradles, science offers a different perspective. With 9 billion people consuming finite resources, the choice not to procreate is not an act of selfishness: it’s choosing to guard the future of the Planet itself.
This provocative analysis explores how the demographic ‘crisis’ might actually be the necessary correction the world has been waiting for, with a raw look at the feminist movement uprising across the Globe.
The long-form article explores the power of a cross-border movement (South Korea’s 4B acronym) to declare:
“If the world born from my body oppresses me, I will not let that world exist.”
Musaengmul (무생물)! The obsession of a living Skin made out of Glass (and the Italian Miracle in between)
The South Korean goal for the unachievable, forever-perfect skin was born in a small, lovely, seaside city in Italy.
While Vanity chases the inert-unreal-unliving perfection of Musaengmul (무생물), I am navigating a different path: repair and health.
As a committed animalist and vegetarian, I signed a pact with my values, undergoing the Rejuran Healer treatment with full awareness of the price a living creature paid and the Daega (대가) I had to settle.
Annyeong (안녕), Seoul! Rise and Shine, Fall and Fade: a neurodivergent European woman in South Korea.
39 years old, female, travelling solo across the Globe.
A 30-day-long Iter in my South Korean peer’s Gomusin (고무신): through the solitude of Seoul’s chaos, to the ancient duty of the Haneyou, between the obsession of a Vitrified, Musaengmul (무생물) Skin and the solemn eternity of the Temples and the Primordial, ever-living Nature (Wonsi-rim,원시림).
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