Human domination of nature increased our isolation from other species

Evidence

The bird was a song sparrow. As the sparrow inched along and pecked at the ground in its customary way, I read for the first time about “species loneliness,” the melancholy alienation of humans from other life-forms. … She adds that “[a]s our human dominance has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 486

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘species loneliness’ concept (Kimmerer’s term) that anchors the chapter’s redirection of attention toward nonhuman neighbors.
• XREF: connects to: Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 826; Human mastery over nature dialectically increases human dependency on matter. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 495; Living without wild things divides humans into two fundamental kinds — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 2 (+4 more)