"The researchers of this project aim to show the connection between food systems and greenhouse gas emissions. In it a direct long-distance impact is made evident. But we also get concrete evidence for Vienna that the more animal products our food has, the more distant they come from, and the more pesticides plants have, the worse it is for the environment. The solution would seem evident (and I say this): fewer or no animal products, free of pesticides or bio, and local or close sources. Unfortunately, such choices are connected to a multiplicity of factors."
"We are in a world of post-development, post-progress, and degrowth, where circularity is a basic means of relating to human-made matter. And there is no way out without transforming our ways of living, without deconstructing what we know in order for the flow of life to continue. Without undoing the sequels of the capitalocene and the plantationocene, without gauging the impact of a narrative that believed that growth and development were purely positive and that technology would bring us to a world of well-being. Without facing all the exploitation, pain, and death that this project required and requires."
Excerpts from: Imayna Caceres. "Organizing our choices for survival". Lecture given as part of Sensing Resonance at Kunsthaus Wien on 24 June, 2024.