Why We Need New Words for Nature
Exploring the idea of shared vocabulary between nature and humans
Kuisma Väänänenakselieliel.substack.com
Sometimes I’m so afraid that we’ve become so good at announcing our differences, in defining ourselves, our identities, down to the last detail, that there is simply no more room, or language, to talk about what connects us. Words die out, too, and with them, ways of thinking. Of course things have to be hammered out, painful fault lines must be ca
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We have suffered an “extinction of experience”, a phrase coined over 20 years ago by naturalist Robert Pyle
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The problem with most marketing parlance is that it's dehumanising. The language causes marketers to think of people not as human beings with real human needs, but as a resource of potential consumers to be manipulated into parting with their money. The task of marketing becomes a left-brain, ‘control and numbers' exercise instead of a human exchan
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