Societal ills stem partly from separation from reciprocal land love

Evidence

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to environmental-racism and settler-colonial threads: separation from land love as root diagnosis of broken relations. — connects to: Environmental despair proves human interests are essentially connected to nature’s flourishing. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 573; Settler violation of reciprocal land ethics caused cascading ecological and cultural loss — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 763; Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 567 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler violation of reciprocal land ethics caused cascading ecological and cultural loss #corroborates (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 763
• Sweetgrass recolonizing disrupted land teaches that brokenness lies in human-land relationship #exemplifies (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1232
• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 567
• Individualism and filter bubbles fragment human society the way dams fragment watersheds #exemplifies (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 510
• National love derives from assimilating the nation to unchosen natural ties #complicates (0.70) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 546