Humans & Nature
Root & branch: Humans in a dance with their environment.
Humans & Nature
When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.
— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An
... See moreWhat can we do now? Well, there's a
whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I
... See moreUnHerd • Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World
“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... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Natural Intelligence
"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
Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies • Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson - Farsight
"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."
— Renowned sociobiologist Dr. E. O. Wilson
Center for Humane Technology • CHT Welcome 2 of 3: The 6 Tenets of Humane Technology
Let us try a thought experiment which might make this clearer. In order to calculate the rate of economic growth, it is necessary to treat all of the activities in which money is handed over as essentially interchangeable. According to the World Bank, agriculture currently makes up around 4% of global GDP. Seen in these terms, the growing of food
... See moreDougald Hine • Helpless Growth
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’
... See moreDeep Ecology • Why We Need New Words for Nature
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.