One more note in this trilogy: This, That and The Other. That directs our attention to the environment. However, the notion of the environment as something separate from the self is a paradigm with implications I must challenge once again.
A video produced by the IPCC in 2023 ends with the slogan "Our climate. Our future" demonstrating a sense of responsibility (good) barely emerging from a sense of ownership, management, use and control (maybe not so good). Whose climate was it before we showed up? Who will be responsible for it when we are gone, and then whose future will it be?
We need to see the world first as a whole within which humanity is one species among millions, a problematic late arrival rushing to the sixth mass extinction with a presumption of entitlement. Meanwhile microplastics accumulate in our brains, another unintended consequence of our ingenuity.
We have a choice. We could aspire instead to belong with respect and restraint to a regenerating world where happy children play for seven generations and more.
I've said all of this before. You can read it again in earlier notes.****************
Some environmental thoughts from past blogs:
Belonging to the Earth: Nov 2021
While Heaven Thaws: Jan 2022
Make a Plan: March 2022
Cousins of Wolves: Aug 2022
Spring Again: March 2023
Seeds: March 2023
Paving Paradise: March 2024
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