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SUMMARY:Dystopia
DESCRIPTION:Register!\n\nOur realities are shaped by the physical world 
 we inhabit\; whether that's the nature that surrounds us\, the humans we
  interact with in community\, the food made accessible to us\, or the st
 ories that reach us\, filled with knowledge our own realities or those f
 ar away. But just as much as we absorb these inputs from the outside wor
 ld to shape our understanding of it\, we are also exerting our own input
 s into the realities of others. We all contribute to a greater understan
 ding of the physical world which surrounds us\, the Topia we exist in. I
 n this lunar cycle\, we will examine the different Topias\, from the mor
 e familiar types found in literature\, Dystopia and Utopia\, to the more
  generative and less well-known genre of Thrutopia and Ourtopia.\n\nThe 
 dystopias we familiarize ourselves with in literature have long warned u
 s of the dangerous potential of humanity to create worlds of incredible 
 suffering. But where does the fiction end\, and reality begin? At least 
 90% of oceanic fish populations are overexploited. There are microplasti
 cs in every human body\, in every mother’s breast milk\, as well as ou
 r hearts and in our brains. Only 4% of Earth’s remaining mammals by bi
 omass are wild beings – 96% of mammals are humans and our livestock. 
 The dominant culture has created a dystopia for every non-human being\, 
 and for most human beings too – yet our dystopias look different\, and
  will continue to unfold differently. In this EcoGathering\, we’ll dis
 cuss our dystopia\, driven in large part by the human population-consump
 tion dynamics in this dominant culture.
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