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When we destroy what there is, it will no longer be. An intelligible, simple and actually banal sentence, which at first glance may refer to the exhaustion of human hope and thus seems like a desperate shout or appeal to the current socio-political state of affairs, which is shifting the dystopian features of the Anthropocene into ever more concrete contours. But is it also possible to understand it from another point of view and to begin to perceive destruction as a positive aspect in another sense? This slogan thus implicitly invites us to consider that it is also possible to understand the word destory from the perspective of a critical view of the contemporary system. In the end its again the system who gives all these negative acts that shape the Anthropocene environment an almost free field of action. Thus, the slogan can also be taken as an encouragement or a challenge to look critically at the current socio-political circumstances and its aspects and to ask whether it is not the essence of the ever-growing tumour that seems to be engulfing the whole of society. Isn't that very destory a kind of challenge that does not necessarily call for action, but rather for us to start looking critically and above all reflecting on the individual causal elements stemming from the current political state of the situation. 

The author thus does not try to proclaim only one particular or personal point of view on a certain issue, but he sees the highly ambivalent quote as being open to multiple interpretations - he sees it as an ideal stimulus for a multi-layered and above all always highly needed discussion that may, but at the same time does not have to, start from the quote in question.