Climate scientists and activists are still tending to think and communicate to the masses in human socio-political terms, even going so far as to reject the worth of saving NGO-promo animals (trees, whales, pandas, polar bears), or other teresapiens in general as an un-emotive or meaningless exercise, and continuing to place the human species as central to all like a gravitational force.
To bring people into the Nawoken, may require the initial motivation of something much closer to themselves. What immediately touches us drives us. But tragically, that too is a legacy of white, ‘Enlightenment’ colonialist separation, reductionism, or bifurcation. Many of the indigenous communities, before the violence of European colonisation erupted, were already living vast eco-logical interconnected lives, honouring and respecting living beings and places, to include the inorganic, where humans were culturally not centre-placed in isolation in all decision making.
This is NOT to take away the human imperative. It is, instead, to add the imperative of all interconnected life, upon which we are all a part, dependent, and having intrinsic value in and of itself. One shared biosphere.
Often, teresapiens were ‘personified’ (Wall-Kimmerer) to be included in all the most weighty decisions. Ancestors, descendents and “Country” (the floloca) similarly played essential roles in the hearts and minds of communities, no better described here, in short, in the proportionality of indigenous peoples of Australia (Graham, Brigg). In doing so, these peoples thrived whilst maintaining complex ecological flows within relative climatic stability across varying bioregions and languages, with equitable consumption patterns and little to no waste. Sometimes that meant leaving things alone as sacred, at least for a period of time, if not forever. In my own eco-political framework I call Cherishism, the Cherishers would make sure all had a ‘say’ too (teresapien lives evaluated with sincerity and reverence in all decisions).
Whatever we do in our seemingly irreversible technological imprint on Earth, these foundational ways of eco-logical living must now return, with ecological growth in both abundance and diversity of all that is now dying.
It is right to fight for human equality and equity between ourselves, for a basic human exchange of empathy, compassion and altruism, but also because those divides themselves continue to drive biospheric destruction and depauperation; air, land and oceans (Grey, et al).
But to survive in our one shared biosphere, more, to thrive as an honourable part of it, those of us in the Westernish, where our Long Covid-like Enlightenment period is still fueling division, bifurcation, hierachies, racism, and consumption-driven destruction in a globalised market, must truly analyse and synthesise our place within life systems, biologically/ecologically, and re-evaluate where we stand.
We are Symlings among symlings, in vast and complex flows. I now call the study of this way of life Symbioethics.
True wisdom would mean listening to our species elders, educating our loved ones, observing and attuning with living ‘flows’ (loves), along their lines/planes/three dimensional places ~ four dimensions, to count the ‘spiritual.’ We are part of nature, not alien to it, and our children and grandchildren deserve to reclaim that billion year old identity.
This superego-juddering shift, despite all the mechanistic political approaches, National/UN targets and agreements possible, is essential.
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Look, my work on Fluminism proves, I contend, that climate justice is about saving all lives with equal devotion. There is NO divide between climate justice and ecological abundance.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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We are all nature – we are one and the same. Concentrate on the processes that hinder flow & create suffering. #Fluminism is as much about resisting racism and poverty as it is about ecological growth.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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Humans are not ecological producers. We don’t even photosynthesise! We ALSO don’t decompose organic material into elements for renewal. We need to look after the ones who do. We are part of system far bigger than us. The biosphere! But what is happening IS an extinction event.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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You might have a gateway into these (shockingly disturbing) facts about life on Earth. It could be that social injustice brings you in.
But it doesn’t stop at this point. Lifetimes of study, ancient cultures, new science on symbiosis… see the interconnectedness of all life!
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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If you don’t, then Homo hubris (the legacy of WhiteMAnthropocentrism), will continue to dominate – we are not central to all life. We are ecological consumers, dependent upon others, including bacteria within. We need those ‘producers’, and the beings who sustain them.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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They help regulate climate, they keep life forces flowing on land, in the air and at sea. They have been punched and pulverised, bit by bit, continent by continent. It has to stop. And fairly, for humans and teresapiens alike. Which means capitalism is no answer. It’s unfair!
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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Climate justice and anti-racism MUST also be about ecological ‘freedoms.’ Because the denial of ecological freedoms means… death. Fight for both.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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I understand that being victims of white oppression over centuries would mean easy rejection of Deep Ecology (ecocentrism), where the whole is put above the needs of the few (a form of utiltarianism). But Fluminism is alternative to holism. It looks to processes instead.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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Processes that sustain life. ALL life (you, me, wherever, and every single living organism). Equally, equity, by the very nature of their dynamic, interconnected flows. #Symbioethics
Yes people matter. All people. As Fluminists.
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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Might you gather these wonderful tweets about ‘fluminism’ into a single-thread so we can refer to (& retweet) all these together? As @jimj220 used to say “equity equals survival.”
— Aubrey Meyer (@aubreygci) October 12, 2020
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That’s kind, Aubrey. The short of it is, of course, love (love being a doing word) for all living beings – plant, animal (inc humammals (equally) ), insect, fungi, bacteria… even viruses to a hidden extent. #Fluminism
Meanwhile, I’ll blog the tweets. Thank you. x
— 🕸Ginny Battson (@seasonalight) October 12, 2020
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