Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes.

Evidence

In order to address the complex environmental issues and prolonged impacts on the Earth, a paradigmatic shift is needed—moving away from ideologies that objectify the natural world, to worldviews that necessitate ethical relationality inclusive of all beings—living or existing. Today, Western colonial capitalist agendas have superseded an ethic of care for the Earth, seeing earthly inhabitants persistently subjugated. To counter the narrative of human supremacy over the non-human world, people might benefit from re-imagining ecological relationships in ways that push beyond hierarchies of oppression, engaging in radical listening as a means of dialogue with the more-than-human world, and responding with care for others such that the cared-for may exist unencumbered in the liberation of their whole selves. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1036

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Humans can only create conditions for nature’s self-liberation, not liberate it. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1032; Freire’s later work folded ecology into radical liberating pedagogy. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1016; The life-force concept of zoe can displace advanced capitalism’s pull — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1115 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Deep ecology understands beings as constituted by their relations, not as separate from environments #exemplifies (0.90) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 327
• Environmentally sustainable futures require norm-changing values, not incremental fixes #corroborates (0.85)
• The philosophical-scientific worldview blocks environmental ethics from valuing insentient nature #expands (0.80)
• Ecological crisis is systemic to modernity, not contingent #expands (0.80)
• Resisting capitalism requires a subjective revolution toward love and unity with nature #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 499
• Environmental ethics critiques Enlightenment frameworks while remaining trapped within its rationality #qualifies (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 360
• Economics, philosophy, and politics must be mutually translatable within one worldview #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1430
• Culture must be negated determinately as reconciliation with nature #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 983
• A green future demands lifestyle changes tied to shared moral values #qualifies (0.72)