Environmental attention includes preventative maintenance against exhaustion of resources.

Evidence

Human attention is the stuff out of which we care for ourselves, our communities, and our planet. When it is fractured and polluted, all forms of life suffer. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 93 (#expands, via linked claim)

Because it begins in the multiple, this model can be transferred without much difficulty from the individual to the collective scale. Christopher Mole mentions the example of a sports team who, when they execute a task with good judgement and by mobilizing all of the necessary resources, can be considered to be demonstrating cognitive unison. We may of course also mention the example of an orchestra or a theatre group – and, by extension, we may now specify the way in which our epoch is dramatically ‘inattentive’ to the threats of climate imbalance brought about by the continuation of our unsustainable lifestyles. It is not a question of ‘being conscious’ of a problem, of thinking about it or even worrying about it, but of dedicating the necessary background resources for solving it. The attunement of echoes here implies both an agreement on certain priorities and a certain behavioural alignment. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 520 (#expands, via linked claim)

Consider two things in tandem. First, people in wealthier neighborhoods almost always have more access to urban parks and to parkland, on top of the fact that such neighborhoods are often in the hills or by the water. When I spoke with Mark Rauzon, one of the original founders of FOSC, he noted that the surrounding neighborhood is well-to-do, which meant that at the get-go, FOSC had lawyers, architects, and landscape designers at its disposal—all of them landed, property-owning professionals. This is a very different situation than in West or East Oakland, where people might be working paycheck to paycheck, with no margin to spare on stewarding or even paying attention to the local watershed. In turn, people in these neighborhoods have far fewer physical spaces for rest, recreation, and conviviality—and those that do exist may be poorly looked after. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 663 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Access to attention and environmental stewardship is stratified by neighborhood wealth — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 663; Attention is the substrate of care for self, community, and planet. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 93; Climate inattention is a collective failure to dedicate attentional resources — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 520

Broader Connections

• Attention is the substrate of care for self, community, and planet. #expands (0.78) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 93
• Climate inattention is a collective failure to dedicate attentional resources #expands (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 520
• Access to attention and environmental stewardship is stratified by neighborhood wealth #qualifies (0.71) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 663