OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance Toward an Ecological Civilization | Eileen Crist
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Aug 17, 2022 Eileen Crist, an environmental writer and scholar focused on biodiversity loss, shares her insights on fostering harmony between humans and nature. She explores the biodiversity crisis, emphasizing the impact of habitat loss and advocating for plant-based diets to alleviate pressure on the planet. Crist highlights the pitfalls of human supremacy and expansionism, urging a shift towards indigenous values of reciprocity with the Earth. She envisions an ecological civilization where 'earthling' identities lead to meaningful work and restored wild spaces.
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Indigenous Values Offer Alternative Models
- Dr. Crist highlights Indigenous values like reciprocity, kinship, and ceremony as recurring non-dominating relationships with nature.
- Indigenous practices often maintained healthy landscapes for millennia without degrading them.
The Technosphere Now Outweighs Living Biomass
- Human expansionism describes the spatial and material swell of the technosphere overtaking living biomass.
- By 2020 human-made mass exceeded the weight of all living things on Earth.
Capitalism Scales Older Patterns Of Domination
- Capitalism accelerates extraction and consumption but isn't the root cause; domination of nature predates it.
- Empires and long histories of resource plunder laid foundations capitalism magnified.
