Keith D Johnson on Nostr: "What we might call modernity, civilization, or the “world made by humans” is a ...
"What we might call modernity, civilization, or the “world made by humans” is a layer built on top of fundamental prerequisites like air, #water, materials, and life. Humans cannot exist in ecological isolation. Our context is unfathomably deep in time & in biodiversity. The hierarchy is crystal clear: humans require ecological health rather than the reverse. This means all our constructs, which do not exist without us, cannot exist without a functioning #ecology.
The globally-dominant culture preaches the opposite hierarchy, either out of ignorance or arrogance: that humans & our constructs are of primary concern—the rest being incidental background noise. For the human supremacist (most people in our culture, unknowingly), biophysical considerations only enter in the context of #energy, materials, extraction, exploitation, & in short, market value.
Let’s be clear: the culture has it terribly wrong." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-11-08/nothing-without-bugs/ #permaculture #insects
The globally-dominant culture preaches the opposite hierarchy, either out of ignorance or arrogance: that humans & our constructs are of primary concern—the rest being incidental background noise. For the human supremacist (most people in our culture, unknowingly), biophysical considerations only enter in the context of #energy, materials, extraction, exploitation, & in short, market value.
Let’s be clear: the culture has it terribly wrong." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-11-08/nothing-without-bugs/ #permaculture #insects