Despite its many benefits, the approach encouraged people to think of nature as something solely to exploit to meet our needs. A being with that remains ignorant of the hauntings held by the land, of histories known and silenced. This film would be a good supplement for collections in history of science or environmental ethics and philosophy. This line pretends to be a protector, claiming to mitigate the risk of a community being set ablaze, but this line instead facilitates preparation for extraction, the looming timber sale awaiting the final bureaucratic nod of approval. I believe that Harding’s approach is a step in the right direction where it comes to addressing the spectre of climate change, on an individual level.

Removing the name that grows from a medicine that believes it can possess the earth gave me space to encounter the unknowable. Parts were sweet, but the hardcore personification did not work for me -- again, this might work for others! These are my heartbeat-funnies, who always remind me of the clashing contradiction and gift that is my life.Later on, when she and Ulay extended the piece, they both sat together completely silent and motionless, for seven hours a day. Learn how the field of science is finally recognizing the Earth as one complex, life-sustaining system. Gaia Theory proponents fall into two camps, the soft-Gaians who maintain that the Earth isn’t alive, but only appears to be. Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina is a Russian-born, NYC-based eco-artist and disability culture activist who forms participatory poetic enchantments through puppetry performance, site-specific installations and, upon occasion, writing.

A documentary film written and presented by Dr Stephan Harding, renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock.Though humanity caused the sickness, some say through excess consumption, humanity is composed of billions of individuals. The Gaia Theory, first proposed as a hypothesis by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s, states that the Earth’s biosphere and upper crust acts in such a way as to create and maintain an environment for the propagation of life. Yet I realize now that in that tearful longing a demand had slipped in, a wish of innocence for the terms of my historical and enculturated white body on this land to be something other than they are. The enculturated sludge of Euro-American scientific arrogance ruptured within me; its poison flowed out my eyes as a salted sea. Many of the silk flower petals around the eye of Dream Puppet were made by people from the neurodiverse and intellectual disability community.

Learn how the field of science is finally recognising the Earth as one complex, life-sustaining system. In Animate Earth Stephan Harding explores how Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the more-than-human world. Now in its second edition, this fascinating book includes a new chapter on fungi, contemplative exercises and an update on the global climate situation. Stephan Harding replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being rather than as a dead, inert mechanism.A relationship where we stop seeing animals as little more than souless machines and the earth itself as nothing but a resource to exploit. In my notes I had written, “My grief and longing for this act leads small punctures of pain and sorrow to move through me, the surface of my eyes now damp.