Ideas that fail to appreciate, consider and complement the intelligence and complexity and workings of organisms and ecosystems and their support systems, most of which long precede human existence.
See wisdom.
Wisdom
Ideas that appreciate, consider and complement the intelligence and complexity and workings of organisms and ecosystems and their support systems, most of which long precede human existence.
See foolishness.
Own One Thing Efforts
Own One Thing Efforts are efforts that assign to groups or individuals the responsibility to take care of one small area of the local ecosystem. In short, the group acts as if they were owners of that one thing in order to foster the emotional investment to act as stewards for that one thing.
For instance, a community organization or group of friends might adopt a section of a meadow to plant native plants upon which area birds or insects rely or a group might partner to push a local grocery store to charge their customers for the plastic grocery bags.
The efforts can be formal or informal and involve large groups or small ones. The point is only to give people a small, specific and actionable task that makes some real improvement in the health of an ecosystem.
The sense of ownership involved in these efforts also give the locality a force to oppose efforts to exploit or destroy that ecosystem by developers, mining and extraction operations or industrial agriculture companies.
Language
Language is perception.
Some words blind us. Some words allow us to perceive what might otherwise be beyond the grasp of our senses.
Environment
A terms that organizes all living things into two categories: first there is “us” and then there is “all other living things.” The term claims, implicitly, that human beings and the world’s habits are divisible and independent from each other, an illusion fostered for hundreds of years.
Also implicit in the term is the notion that all other living things are subordinate to human will, interests and concerns. Out of it comes the belief that “human beings have primacy over the earth” and that the planet is “under our rule.”
This ideology is widely-accepted and is complicit in the ecological degradation of the earth as this ideology is used as a rationale and justification for most habitat destruction.
Terms which more accurately reflect our dependence on the planet’s living networks are ecosystem, habitat and biosphere.
Catastrophic Climate Destabilization
A more accurate term for what is currently referred to as climate change.
Person
1) A member of the only species that produces waste.
2) An animal that often thinks of itself as apart from the rest of the living world and superior to it.
