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.
Fixing → Caring: I start by moving away from the techno-deterministic pull of the language around ‘fixing’ and instead urge the use of ‘caring’. When we foreground the idea of care, it inherently embodies ideas of fixing, building, making — everything necessary to-take-care-of that particular thing, person, tree, insect, bird, animal, us, them,... See more
Anab Jain • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
