Humans & Nature
The traditional or tribal shaman, I came to discern, acts as an intermediary between the human community and the larger ecological field, ensuring that there is an appropriate flow of nourishment, not just from the landscape to the human inhabitants, but from the human community back to the local earth. By his constant rituals, trances, ecstasies,
... See morefrom The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
simon added 4mo ago
- Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more
from Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training. by Nora Bateson
simon added 3mo ago
- “Life runs on sunlight. Life rewards cooperation. Life builds from the bottom up. Life banks on diversity. Life recycles everything. Life builds resilience through diversity, decentralization, and redundancy. Life optimizes rather than maximizes. Life selects for the good of the whole system. In short, life creates the conditions conducive to life.... See more
from Natural Intelligence by Thomas Klaffke
simon added 2mo ago
The story of separation can be vividly seen in the human-nature divide. Treating the environment as a resource that should be used for the benefit of humankind has ultimately led to its abuse and destruction. Today, the world economy has become the ‘end,’ and nature and humans have become the ‘means,’ the resources for the economy. Believing oursel
... See morefrom What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis by Christine Wamsler
simon added 4mo ago
The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us. Borrowing a term from the environmentalist Bill McKibben, Michelle Bastian, a senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and editor of the academic journal Time & Society, has argued that clocks have made us “fatally
... See morefrom The Tyranny Of Time by noemamag.com
simon added 4mo ago
- We tend to think of the environment as a subsystem of the economy, but it is entirely the other way around. We are part of nature, not separate from it.
from We need to value natural capital | Greenbiz by Green Biz
simon added 5mo ago
- "The world is your body, you breathe it, drink it, eat it, it lives inside you, and you only live and think because this community is doing well. So: nature? You are nature, nature is you. Natural is what happens. The word is useless as a divide, there is no Human apart from Nature, you have no thoughts or feelings without your body, and the Earth ... See more
from Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight by Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
simon added 5mo ago
We need the biosphere to be healthy so that we can be healthy. Giving the biosphere legal rights makes some sense if we are serious about making the future a better one.
from What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights? by Matt Orsagh from Degrowth is the Answer
simon added 3mo ago
Dr. Stibbe’s book, The Stories We Live By, and free online course are full of real-life examples: of economics textbooks that describe people as “consumers” who are driven by an insatiable need to buy; the government documents that position cows and horses as “units” as though they are as lifeless as a kitchen cupboard; and the United Nations’ Sust
... See morefrom Why We Need New Words for Nature by Deep Ecology
simon added 4mo ago