https://www.aldoleopold.org/post/understanding-land-ethic/A land ethic expands the definition of “community” to include not only humans, but all of the other parts of the Earth, as well: soils, waters, plants, and animals, or what Leopold called “the land.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-environmental/Consider orthodox Western forestry. Too often it has assumed that activities that fall outside the realm of commercial fiber production are less important than those that fall inside that realm. Yet the latter are precisely the activities that rural women in many parts of Africa and India engage in on a daily basis. Failure to understand the importance of these activities often makes women “invisible”. This invisibility helps explains why many orthodox, Western foresters
literally do not see trees that are used as hedgerows or living fence poles; trees that provide materials for basketry, dyes, medicines, or decorations; trees that provide sites for honey barrels; trees that provide fodder; trees that have religious significance; trees that provide shade; or trees that provide human food.
Because many foresters literally do not see the enormous variety in the use of trees, they frequently do not see the vast number of species that are useful … that men and women may have very different uses for the same tree or may use different trees for different purposes. (Fairfax and Fortmann 1990: 268–9)
http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/MosqFearfulNotion.htmlThe ecocentric valuation perspective says that the vast majority of reasonable people--today's politicians, business leaders, educators, bureaucrats and other decision makers are in fact unreasonable or "unsound of thought and judgement...lacking sense...unsensible, extreme, insane...unable to listen to reason or acting according to lack of reason. This is because their policies of development, growth and progress are destroying the very basis for life on Earth.
Love and respect come naturally to people who spend time in the wilderness. It's people who live in cities who may lack love due to nature-blindness. Their visual language is cars and buildings. Put them in a forest and they literally don't see what's before them. More exposure would correct that, but who wants hoards of city people roaming around putting lives in danger? — frank
It didn't even occur to me that you didn't realize that farms don't count as wilderness. If you spend a lot if time in the wilderness your senses adjust to it. When you come back out things like billboards and roads seem weird. If you go from the desert into Las Vegas its possible to have a visceral reaction of abhorrence to the excesses. You've adjusted to the sparseness of the desert. Shades of Dune. But farms are likewise jarring to wilderness senses. Ciity people are just the furthest away from wildness. Farmers who hunt know about the wild.Well you contrast city dwellers with wilderness dwellers, it seems. — unenlightened
we should not also have human-free spaces, where — unenlightened
part of me needs the wild. — frank
I'm just struggling to work out what your point is in relation to eco-philosophy — unenlightened
The issue is "how should we act"; — Mariner
So, whether you are connected or disconnected, how will you act? — unenlightened
So, whether you are connected or disconnected, how will you act? — unenlightened
If you are aware... — Mariner
I think I have also a duty to make myself aware, but it ain't easy. — unenlightened
One major beef -- rather, the greatest beef -- I have with mainstream "environmentalism" is that it mostly replaces one ideological discourse with another, rather than encouraging awareness. — Mariner
But what else is there? — unenlightened
“I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.” — Gus Speth
How do you justify it? Or do you? What action should you be taking? — frank
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