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Tickling the Tsaheylu:
Humans are not supernatural beings. This might, on the face of it, sound like a statement with which the vast majority of us agree. However, it is anything but. Western Agro-industrial civilization holds at it's heart two overriding principles. Principles that it shares with the Abrahamic religions, and which have survived the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason completely intact, and which it could be argued have even been reinforced by them. These principles, those of anthropocentrism and of human supremacism or exceptionalism, declare humans to be supernatural beings.

#NotesFromADyingCulture #Blog #Anthropocentrism #Ecocentrism #Gaia #Earth #ProbablyWillUpsetTescrealTypes #Anticiv

eyweveng.blogspot.com/2025/02/

eyweveng.blogspot.comTickling the Tsaheylu  Reality is less cool, but at least it won't make you go blind. Copyright: Lightstorm/20th Century (credit: Ollympian ) Humans are not supe...

Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters:
Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region

"Formal disaster prevention, preparation, risk management, and response remain highly anthropocentric, with non-human animals afforded minimal attention, resourcing, and support. This article reports on informal community efforts to care for non-human animals during and after the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia, when over three billion animals were killed, injured, or displaced."

"Key findings are that:
human communities understood and treated non-human animals as part of their communities; humans went to extraordinary lengths to care for and rescue animals; these efforts were largely invisible to, and unsupported—even condemned—by formal emergency management agencies. We conclude that human-centric emergency and disaster management policies are at odds with community values and behaviors. We argue that disaster management must evolve to accommodate and support the realities of community-based rather than individual-based approaches, and must simultaneously expand to consider communities as multispecies."
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Sturman, A., Celermajer, D., MacDonald, F. et al. Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-006
#bushfires #fires #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #care #biodiversity #wildlife #NSW #megafires #2019Bushfires #BlackSummer #disaster #preparation #pets #property #livestock #anthropocentrism #multispecies #community #values

SpringerLinkCommunity Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region - International Journal of Disaster Risk ScienceFormal disaster prevention, preparation, risk management, and response remain highly anthropocentric, with non-human animals afforded minimal attention, resourcing, and support. This article reports on informal community efforts to care for non-human animals during and after the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia, when over three billion animals were killed, injured, or displaced. We conducted 56 in-depth interviews with community members, government officials, and experts, and ran four full day workshops with community members to investigate: how communities sought to protect and care for domesticated, farmed, and wild animals; the factors that facilitated and impeded their efforts; and the changes they believed would lead to better outcomes for animals in disasters in the future. Key findings are that: human communities understood and treated non-human animals as part of their communities; humans went to extraordinary lengths to care for and rescue animals; these efforts were largely invisible to, and unsupported—even condemned—by formal emergency management agencies. We conclude that human-centric emergency and disaster management policies are at odds with community values and behaviors. We argue that disaster management must evolve to accommodate and support the realities of community-based rather than individual-based approaches, and must simultaneously expand to consider communities as multispecies.

You know, I have that filefolder #RealityGoesCrazy. I love satire, absurd scifi plots, and wouldn't be surprised if Douglas Adams suddenly rang the doorbell. And as a journalist, some news doesn't really surprise me.
But I wasn't sure whether this text was satire until the last sentence. It is *reality* gone completely mad. astronomy.com/science/astronom

Astronomy Magazine · An asteroid got deleted because it was actually Elon Musk’s Tesla RoadsterThe case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in deep space.

what a show. the u.s. congressional 'ufo hearing' was a great foreshadowing of how nuts (not only) this country will become. a much better show: i like the scene where the "alien" (incognito) is being interviewed, but within a few seconds the interviewer moves on, not remotely interested in what "he" has to say - we know why. anyway, aliens, beware: they want to put you in camps and send you back. just ignore them.

archive.org/details/The.Day.Th

"In his book, Straw Dogs, John Gray argues that in the 21st century it is time to abandon our sense of specialness as human beings and replace it with an acknowledgement that we are, as a species, just as prone to expendability as any other thing that has lived on Earth. There is truth in that, unpalatable as it is. But looked at another way, it is the admission which will finally unify us with the natural world."

#Clifi #Anthropocentrism #ClimateFiction #Humans #Ecocentrism

theguardian.com/books/2024/oct

The Guardian · The new folk horror: nature is coming to kill you!By Guardian staff reporter

What’s on your mind? asks Mastodon.

Well, I have been reading Alastair McIntosh ‘Soil and Soul’ and I have been looking at a conversation between Bill Rees and Rachel Wells planetcritical.com/p/reflectio

and yet the perspective I have come across recently that seems to be my current sticking point is that “people are more absorbed by the person sitting next to them than they are by the ground of being that allows them to exist at all” — a paraphrasing I make from this post news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

#ClimateCatastrophe #BiodiversityCrisis
#apathy #guilt #anthropocentrism #ShortSightedness #greed #StoryTelling #mythopoesis

Planet: Critical · Reflections on an ArgumentBy Rachel Donald

Land Back on the far south coast of NSW

"Heritage-listed property Plumwood Mountain has been officially handed back to the Walbunja people of the far south NSW coast. More than 250 years later, in a first for NSW, the Walbunja people have been handed back a 120-hectare heritage-listed private property at Monga, owned by the estate of the late environmental activist, academic and philosopher Val Plumwood."
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abc.net.au/news/2024-09-24/val

Political activism and intellectual critique
Philosopher and ecofeminist Val Plumwood was " against the "hyperseparation" of humans from the rest of nature and what she called the "standpoint of mastery"; a reason/nature dualism in which the natural world—including women, indigenous people, and non-humans—is subordinated." ( Wikipedia)

Val Plumwood became well known after she explored the Alligator River floodplain of Kakadu/Gagudju on a flimsy canoe and experienced being from a "standpoint of mastery" to "Being Prey" (1996).>
The Eye of the Crocodile
press-files.anu.edu.au/downloa
nma.gov.au/explore/collection/
#LandBack #conservation #NSW #BatemansBay #activism #anthropocentrism #IndigenousePeoples #WalbunjaPeople #Plumwood #Heritage #Biodiversity

ABC News · Walbunja traditional custodians gifted estate of activist, academic Val Plumwood in NSWBy Alasdair McDonald

"… Gaza is rapidly transformed into a dump, where high-rise buildings and human bodies, ecosystems … and orchards are mutilated beyond recognition and reduced to organic-inorganic rubble. A solidarity with dumpified lives, places, and worlds requires something other than compassion. So what could that be?"
thedailystar.net/opinion/views

The Daily Star · We are all biomassWe all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.

#Geoengineering - or "Let's dump 60,000 gallons of caustic soda into the bay and see what happens" is why science without a strong cultural context of caution, respect and reverence for the world we belong to will always end in a nightmarish dystopian hellscape of #anthropocentrism and #technosolutionism

phys.org/news/2024-08-cape-cod

Phys.org · Cape Cod scientists delay controversial climate change project after feds raise concernBy Lance Reynolds

"Ecosystem services" for ALL living beings

"Solving our current ecological and social crises requires a radical transformation of humanity's relationship to the global ecosystems that sustain all life."

At present there is government paralysis and "we keep voting in people who are OK with prolonging the use of fossil fuels, the very thing that is cooking our planet".

We have an egocentric approach to nature, despite knowing that without the environment, there's no economy.
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abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/alb

"Nature does not revolve around humans any more than the sun revolves around the Earth...Ecosystem services are co-created by all species; humans must stop free-riding."
"We redefine ecosystem services as nature’s benefits to the biotic community of which humans are a part...The Ecozoic is defined as an era characterized by the mutual flourishing of humans and the rest of Nature.
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Rethinking ecosystem services from the anthropocene to the Ecozoic: Nature’s benefits to the biotic community
sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Ecosystem Services Key concepts and applications, au gov
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agriculture.gov.au/sites/defau
#nature #EcosystemServices #egocentrism #Australia #resources #TAKEApproach #anthropocentrism #biodiversity #conservation #ecosystems #Ecozoic #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis

"Building on Karl Marx’s value theory, #DineshJosephWadiwel argues that #FactoryFarms and #IndustrialFisheries are not merely an example of unchecked human supremacism. Nor a result of the victory of market forces. But a combination of both. In #AnimalsAndCapital [..] Wadiwel untangles this contemporary handshake between hierarchical #anthropocentrism and #capitalism."

newbooksnetwork.com/animals-an
#FactoryFarming #CAFOs #BigAg #IndustrialAquaculture #agribusiness #anthropocène #capitalocène #books