Species loss mirrors the loss of one’s own unusable capacities

Evidence

That’s why, when I worry about the estuary’s diversity, I am also worrying about my own diversity—about having the best, most alive parts of myself paved over by a ruthless logic of use. When I worry about the birds, I am also worrying about watching all my possible selves go extinct. And when I worry that no one will see the value of these murky waters, it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mysteries, and my own depths. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 616

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘ruthless logic of use’ is the instrumental gaze she wants attention redirected away from. — connects to: Animal species loss inflicts spiritual and psychological harm on Indigenous peoples — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1649; Species extinction is experienced as extinction of possible selves; The individual has lost the autonomy to realize the species (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Animal species loss inflicts spiritual and psychological harm on Indigenous peoples — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1649; Species extinction is experienced as extinction of possible selves; The individual has lost the autonomy to realize the species (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Species extinction is experienced as extinction of possible selves #corroborates (0.93)