
Saved by Keely Adler
Seeing Wetiko
Saved by Keely Adler
our troubles are driven by one or all of these factors: Biology and the expansion of the human population A culture of domination and exploitation Rapacious capitalism and the blind pursuit of profit Runaway technological development Shortsighted individual psychology, driven by Paleolithic impulses
Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are all living with its consequences. When Europe began its pillage of the Western Hemisphere in 1492, Indigenous cosmologies of reciprocity, relationships with and duties of care for water, land, and living beings were uprooted, replaced with a worldview animated
... See moreToday, we increasingly understand that climate change and other sustainability challenges are internal, relationship crises. They result from modern societies’ story of separation. This story assumes that we are all separate from each other, that some humans are superior to other humans, and that human beings are both separate and superior to the r
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