Land-based cultures tied their survival ethics to maintaining the land’s carrying capacity.
Evidence
People in local, land-based cultures developed and maintained a specific ethical relationship to their food source that was based on recognizing that their survival depended on maintaining the carrying capacity of the land, and the intrinsic value of other species. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1425
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Feeds the ‘On Sacrifice’ interest in how preindustrial peoples frame ethical relationships to their sustaining land and food.
- XREF: Mirrors Bowers’ cultural-commons analysis and the ch7 principle that beings have intrinsic worth. — connects to: The Honorable Harvest ethic dies where land and life are treated as commodities — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 731; Human culture and the natural environment form an interdependent dialectical system. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 251; Settler violation of reciprocal land ethics caused cascading ecological and cultural loss — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 763 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Settler violation of reciprocal land ethics caused cascading ecological and cultural loss
#corroborates(0.82) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 763 - The Honorable Harvest ethic dies where land and life are treated as commodities
#corroborates(0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 731 - Dene land relations frame reciprocal obligations between humans and nonhumans.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 243 - Human culture and the natural environment form an interdependent dialectical system.
#expands(0.78) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 251