Excellent read. "Free Your Eco-Mind" by Frances Moore Lappe
Think like an ecosystem, and you just might save the world.
Gradually its dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, what we can see and what we cannot. Nothing so wrong with that, perhapsexcept that, in this crucial do-or-die moment, were stuck with a mental map that is life-destroying.
And the premise of this map is lacknot enough of anything, from energy to food to parking spots; not enough goods and not enough goodness. In such a world, we come to believe, its compete or die. The popular British writer Philip Pullman says, we evolved to suit a way of life which is acquisitive, territorial, and combative and that we have to overcome millions of years of evolution to make the changes we need to avoid global catastrophe.
If I believed that, Id feel utterly hopeless. How can we align with the needs of the natural world if we first have to change basic human nature?
Fortunately, we dont have to. A new way of seeing that is opening up to us can form a more life-serving mental map. I call it eco-mindlooking at the world through the lens of ecology. This worldview recognizes that we, no less than any other organism, live in relation to everything else. As the visionary German physicist Hans-Peter Dürr puts it, There are no parts, only participants.
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