Our project explores the idea of monocultures as a metaphor to challenge predominant cultural homogeneity of environmental solutions as perceived by mainstream environmental movements. Our piece argues for the acknowledgement of environmental solutions outside of a principally technocratic adaptation and mitigation framework. Instead, we point towards the importance of solutions that have been executed in indigenous and post-colonial contexts. In place of linear flows of information based in Western tradition to the rest of the world, Monoculture posits that exchanges in environmental solutions should be an ever-evolving information ecosystem that draws from a variety of present and historical perspectives.

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Why Monoculture?

 

“The violence of the Anthropocene lies in its monotone nature. The illusion that there is a single we that desires coffee, sugar, soy, and rubber can lead to the illusion that the planetary costs of these technical quick-fixes affect us all equally. Monoculture’s power, then, is its ability to breed not just a dearth of biological difference across landscapes, but a creeping in-difference to the radically uneven impact of capitalism on ecologies, identities, and planetary life. Such indifference may be the greatest threat to life in the Anthropocene.”