We are Nature - an open letter to the publishers of UK dictionaries
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We are Nature - an open letter to the publishers of UK dictionaries
If we are to address the wholesale despoliation of the planet, and our growing helplessness in the face of vast computational power, then we must find ways to reconcile our technological prowess and sense of human uniqueness with an earthy sensibility and an attentiveness to the interconnectedness of all things.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We call nature ‘the wilderness’ and animals within it ‘wild animals’ while we are ‘civil’ humans. This type of language alone shows our un-symbiotic relationship with nature. We see us, humans, ourselves, as being separate or even superior to nature (the ‘wild’ vs the tame, conscious, civil), a mental model that is at the root of so many powerful a... See more
Substack • Seeing Wetiko
This answer is no longer broadly resonant, or even acceptable as a go-forward baseline in the circles that run Western civilization (ref The Davos Agenda). It’s clear that pursuit of maximal human dominance has led to widespread, intractable and potentially irreversibly negative impact on “the planet”, by which we generally mean those planetary eco... See more
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
If we are able to heal ourselves and our connection with the earth, then we can heal the earth. Or, more accurately, become a part of its healing. In that way we don’t have to take responsibility for the problems of the earth, because the problems really live inside us. We’re not the bosses of nature, nature is our boss. Or, rather it is our Mother
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