Environmental despair proves human interests are essentially connected to nature’s flourishing.
Evidence
(Grimshaw 1986:175) When the mother wishes for the child’s recovery, the child’s flourishing is internal to her desires, not merely an external, interchangeable means to some other end, such as her own happiness. She wants health and happiness for the child for its sake, as Well as for her own. Such intrinsic or essential relationships are not confined to the private sphere, and the sense of loss and despair brought about in most of us by the future prospect of a devastated natural and social environment cannot be explained in terms of isolable individual interests. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 573
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Dualistic blind spots structurally prevent the master culture from perceiving ecological peril — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 739; Respect for nature can rest on human self-interest in integrity, not intrinsic value — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 454; Dread of future environmental risk itself causes physical and economic harm — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 309 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Respect for nature can rest on human self-interest in integrity, not intrinsic value
#contradicts(0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 454 - Dread of future environmental risk itself causes physical and economic harm
#exemplifies(0.75) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 309 - Environmental adversity only reorients choice; it does not cancel freedom
#qualifies(0.75) - Separating nature from value stripped humans of intrinsic worth too
#corroborates(0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 399 - Societal ills stem partly from separation from reciprocal land love
#corroborates(0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 441