Emotional survival is bound up with non-human others, not only with people

Evidence

It’s a bit like falling in love—that terrifying realization that your fate is linked to someone else’s, that you are no longer your own. But isn’t that closer to the truth anyway? Our fates are linked, to each other, to the places where we are, and everyone and everything that lives in them. How much more real my responsibility feels when I think about it this way! This is more than just an abstract understanding that our survival is threatened by global warming, or even a cerebral appreciation for other living beings and systems. Instead this is an urgent, personal recognition that my emotional and physical survival are bound up with these “strangers,” not just now, but for life. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 615

Categorization

• XREF: The love-as-bind trope here connects to her bioregionalist attachment theme and complicates withdrawal readings. — connects to: People grieve the loss only of species they have come to know personally — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 177; Emotions can belong to groups rather than only to individuals — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2261; Humans have fragile selves that need social approval to survive — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 537 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: People grieve the loss only of species they have come to know personally — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 177; Emotions can belong to groups rather than only to individuals — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2261; Humans have fragile selves that need social approval to survive — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 537 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Humans have fragile selves that need social approval to survive #complicates (0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 537
• Emotional detachment from others can serve constructive protective purposes #complicates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 618