@NocturnalNessa But isn't it all the more frightening that this tiny dirt aka humans is causing more destruction than many a meteorite? That this tiny dirt is causing the #climate to tip over and leading to the 6th #extinction?
Imagine, how much arrogance, #anthropocentrism, and #hubris is behind humans' acting! What a disproportion to our smallness!
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
https://eyweveng.blogspot.com/2025/02/tickling-tsaheylu.html
@BBCWildlife @bbc-wildlife-magazine-BBCWildlife Please don't use this deeply #anthropocentric #narrative, even if it sounds sensational. The animals you show are deeply fascinating, special, and beautiful in their own way. If we want to protect biodiversity we need to like nature.
Your article shows a bit of that fascination but the clickbait is disgusting.
#Anthropocentrism is so often unthinkingly assumed. Unquestioned and unchallenged. But it’s a deeply important choice. A bad one.
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). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00623-8
#bushfires #fires #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #care #biodiversity #wildlife #NSW #megafires #2019Bushfires #BlackSummer #disaster #preparation #pets #property #livestock #anthropocentrism #multispecies #community #values
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. https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/
All Hail our Planet, Our Mess & our childrens pending disasters because ....
Good programme!
The report of our most recent gathering for reverence (last Sunday) is now available on our blog. Autumn can remind us not to become too focused on ourselves……. https://ringwoodunitarians.blogspot.com/?m=1
#Unitarians #RingwoodUnitarians
#openness
#anthropocentrism
#faith
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.
https://archive.org/details/The.Day.The.Earth.Stood.Still1951
"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
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/31/horror-villain-nature
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 https://www.planetcritical.com/p/reflections-on-an-argument
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 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/book-excerpt-from-glory-days-by-simon-rich/
#ClimateCatastrophe #BiodiversityCrisis
#apathy #guilt #anthropocentrism #ShortSightedness #greed #StoryTelling #mythopoesis
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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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-24/val-plumwood-estate-handed-back-to-walbunja-traditional-owners/104384170
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
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p208511/pdf/book.pdf
https://www.nma.gov.au/explore/collection/highlights/val-plumwood-canoe
#LandBack #conservation #NSW #BatemansBay #activism #anthropocentrism #IndigenousePeoples #WalbunjaPeople #Plumwood #Heritage #Biodiversity
"… 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?"
https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/project-syndicate/news/we-are-all-biomass-3662596
#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
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-cape-cod-scientists-delay-controversial.html
Anthropocentric biases are pervasive, even among professional ethologists. Differences in perceptual abilities are deliberately left unmeasured and unreported in behavioural experiments.
Brebner et al. (2024) Through an animal’s eye: the implications of diverse sensory systems in scientific experimentation. Proc R Soc B 291:20240022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0022
Remember: Humans are not the problem.
The problem is specific worldviews, ecomomic theories, and ideologies such as #Anthropocentrism , #Androcentrism and #Colonialism
"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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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/albanese-government-fed-budget-scientists-warn-climate-change/103834644
"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
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212041624000305?dgcid=coauthor
Ecosystem Services Key concepts and applications, au gov
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https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ecosystem-services.pdf
#nature #EcosystemServices #egocentrism #Australia #resources #TAKEApproach #anthropocentrism #biodiversity #conservation #ecosystems #Ecozoic #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis
An orangutan strolls through remains of a former rainforest.
"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."
https://newbooksnetwork.com/animals-and-capital
#FactoryFarming #CAFOs #BigAg #IndustrialAquaculture #agribusiness #anthropocène #capitalocène #books
Cultivate Projects and Studio Teleocene would like to invite you to an online talk by Elena Soterakis:
“Intertwining Roots: BioArt and the Environmental Nexus is set against the backdrop of the pioneering exhibition Soterakis co-curated at BioBAT Art Space, "Embodied Futures and The Ecology of Care.”
