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Humanity, the Ecosystem
As the American ecologist Aldo Leopold deftly put it, we need to transform the way we see ourselves, ‘from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it’.41 Thanks to forty years of Earth-system research, we have a rapidly improving scientific understanding of how the Holocene epoch – with its stable climate, ample fresh water,
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in Nature and our impact on this planet and its biosphere. To enact change, we need to start by telling a new story. This book is my attempt to propose a post-Copernican worldview that realigns humanity with the natural world. The core principle behind this new worldview is biocentrism, the idea that a living planet is a sacred realm that deserves
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This article aims to change the terms of the conversation about the ecological crisis. We argue that the human–nature dualism, a product of Enlightenment thought and primarily responsible for the ecological crisis, cannot be the basis for any meaningful solutions. We show how more recent Western imaginaries like the Anthropocene and Gaia proposed... See more
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This shift in perspective – from pyramid to web, from pinnacle to participant – also invites us to move beyond anthropocentric values and to recognise and respect the intrinsic value of the living world.