Nature on a silver platter…
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Posted on August 26, 2007
Filed Under Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Earth spirituality, Inspiration and reflection
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is so wrong. It is so very wrong.
The article linked here was on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel yesterday, Nature on Platter, Mint on Pillow.
I mean, I have encountered all sorts of ways in which we abstract ourselves from, exploit, use and abuse nature. But this is beyond the beyond. This is nature reduced to a plaything for the rich, a little pleasure enhancer for those who don’t know how to share bathrooms or fly anything other than first class — so how would one expect them to actually respect nature as part of them, as more important than them, as the most vital relationship they have on this Earth — the one that keeps them alive, and ought to keep us humble, unless one can afford butlers and maid service and air-conditioned tents with all the amenities.
It makes me weep.
‘Glamping’ — a new word in our vocabulary for how we use nature as a toy, how we separate ourselves out from the limits and intimate connections with the natural world — if you are wealthy enough.
Have you read, Last Child in the Woods - Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv? It is a remedy for this atrocity.
Just think how the 6-year-old Ethan will relate to nature as he becomes an adult.
One can hope for a good healthy rebellion, a diving into nature, clothes dirty and wet, frogs in the hand, wonder in his eyes…
Ethan, I am rooting for you.
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