Environmental disaster turned nature into a recognized collective political good.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Environmental despair proves human interests are essentially connected to nature’s flourishing. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 573

Broader Connections

• Environmental despair proves human interests are essentially connected to nature’s flourishing. #corroborates (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 573