Why We Need New Words for Nature
The climate crisis and the Anthropocene have made it clear that our old stories – often fixated on human heroes conquering nature or extracting resources – are inadequate. We need narratives that foreground entanglement: the interdependence of humans, non-human creatures, and the Earth itself.
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
Richard Fisher • Why We Need New Words for Life in the Anthropocene
Language can be dehumanizing towards other people, sure. That almost seems obvious. But the language we use can also devalue and denigrate the air we breath, the ground we walk on, the birds that wake us in the morning.