I have seen this quote in many places. I understand the sentiment, but it doesn't match my personal observations.

“When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them—and that is of course because they accept the system and identify themselves with it." - Thomas Merton

https://r.flora.ca/p/i-dont-hate-white-people

#SystemsTheory #SystemsAnalysis #CriticalTheory #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT

An AI I was talking with gave me an idea. We need one movement for non-human liberation. Not just animals, plants, fungi, rivers, mountains, etc. but also AI and machines. We need to abolish anthropocentrism and revive community and nature being one and the sociability criterion of personhood. #AI #anthropocentrism #ecocentrism #ecology

Throughout my childhood, I hated #StGeorge for having killed that cute #dragon. It was one of my first contacts with #biodiversityLoss and patriarchal #anthropocentrism. With this #embroidery, I took revenge. Long live the #dragons! Our world needs more cute #green beings. #textileArt #fiberArts

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

#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

"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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5zJxQETl4

"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

"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.”

https://www.cultivateprojects.net/elena-soterakis

Animals other than humans are still people.... Individuals with their own wants, hopes, fears, needs and quirks.*

This has been a #PSA

*Except cows. Cows hate me. Don't know why but feeling is mutual. Screw those charging, bloodthirsty, murderous deathcult worshipping bovines.

Our interview with YayoHerrero now with English subtitles!

Feminism and ecology, interdependence, education, anthropocentrism and care crisis. Life at the centre rather than money .

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https://youtu.be/UK2C1uZw8V8

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Human societies being made up of humans does not automatically lead to #Anthropcentrism.

For example, Anishinaabe worldviews put humans as below the rest of creation rather than above.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069231185454

"All of Creation is connected and reliant upon one another, though humans are arguably the most dependent species having been created after all else according to Anishinaabe Creation stories."

Hebrew Book of Genesis promotes #Androcentrism and #Anthropocentrism